| #1045573 in Books | university harvard | 2004-06-30 | 2004-07-30 | Original language:Latin | PDF # 1 | 1.35 x4.32 x6.80l,1.02 | File type: PDF | 672 pages | ||0 of 0 people found the following review helpful.| Have you read "Thyestes"? If not, why not|By buddhawannabe|"Thyestes" is the one masterpiece of classical drama that nobody's ever heard of, and it really is a masterpiece. Haven't read other translations, but this one is very good and the notes for the two Loeb volumes are fine. If you've read other Seneca plays and said "ho hum" as I did, don't give up on Seneca but read "||This second volume of the new Loeb tragedies (the first volume, also by John Fitch, appeared in 2002) is very much in the new style and admirably suited to the new standard. Fitch has long been a major player in Senecan studies, and the vast range of his exper
Seneca is a figure of first importance in both Roman politics and literature: a leading adviser to Nero who attempted to restrain the emperor's megalomania; a prolific moral philosopher; and the author of verse tragedies that strongly influenced Shakespeare and other Renaissance dramatists. This volume completes the Loeb Classical Library's new two-volume edition of Seneca's tragedies. John Fitch's annotated translation, which faces Latin text, conveys the force of S...
You easily download any file type for your gadget.Seneca: Tragedies II: Oedipus, Agamemnon, Thyestes, Hercules on Oeta, Octavia (Loeb Classical Library) | Seneca. I was recommended this book by a dear friend of mine.
