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Book Synopsis Seneca: Agamemnon by : Lucius Annaeus Seneca
Download or read book Seneca: Agamemnon written by Lucius Annaeus Seneca and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2004-08-26 with total page 424 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this edition Professor Tarrant provides a much needed critical text.
Download or read book Seneca: Agamemnon written by Seneca and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1977-01-13 with total page 417 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Seneca's tragedy Agamemnon is a brilliantly rhetorical piece, written for the study rather than the stage. In this edition Professor Tarrant provides a much needed critical text. In his introduction he discusses the sources, dating, structure and mode of production of Agamemnon and Senecan drama in general, and includes a detailed survey of the manuscript tradition. His commentary is the fullest yet published on a Senecan play and attempts both to interpret the text and to define the originality of Senecan drama by placing it in its proper literary context; it contains material illustrating Seneca's relationship to earlier Greek and Roman drama, Augustan poetry (Ovid's in particular), and the rhetoric of declamation. This edition will be welcomed by classical scholars and students of Latin poetry, and may also prove valuable to those interested in Seneca's influence on later European drama.
Book Synopsis Studley's Translations of Seneca's Agamemnon and Medea by : Lucius Annaeus Seneca
Download or read book Studley's Translations of Seneca's Agamemnon and Medea written by Lucius Annaeus Seneca and published by . This book was released on 1912 with total page 734 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Eyght Tragedie of Seneca by : Lucius Annaeus Seneca
Download or read book The Eyght Tragedie of Seneca written by Lucius Annaeus Seneca and published by . This book was released on 1566 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Seneca's Agamemnon by : Marsha Lynne Westfall
Download or read book Seneca's Agamemnon written by Marsha Lynne Westfall and published by . This book was released on 1977 with total page 392 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Tragedies of Seneca by : Lucius Annaeus Seneca
Download or read book The Tragedies of Seneca written by Lucius Annaeus Seneca and published by . This book was released on 1907 with total page 552 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Agamemnon written by Howard Colyer and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2013-12-31 with total page 174 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The war is over and the hero returns. But what good is a hero without a war? What else does he know but warfare? And his city has managed without him. The gap left by his departure has closed. Yet the problems he left behind have remained. They have lain dormant. But his return revives them.
Book Synopsis Seneca by : Lucius Annaeus Seneca (Philosophus.)
Download or read book Seneca written by Lucius Annaeus Seneca (Philosophus.) and published by . This book was released on 1968 with total page 541 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Agamemnon by : Lucius Annaeus Seneca
Download or read book Agamemnon written by Lucius Annaeus Seneca and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2019 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The tragic myth of Agamemnon, Mycenae's 'king of kings', who sacrificed his own daughter in order to sack the great city of Troy and returned home only to be assassinated by his wife and her lover, has been a constant source of fascination for writers and artists from classical Greece right up to the present day. The ancient Romans were drawn to the myth, but Seneca's tragedy is the only dramatic treatment from this tradition to have survived intact: often undervalued, it is in fact intellectually and poetically one of his richest plays - dramatically innovative, spectacular, and pervasively self-reflective. Its strong lyric and theatrical qualities - from polymetric choral odes to powerful meditative soliloquies-perfectly complement Seneca's complex presentation of the slaying of husband, father, and king and his exploration of such attendant issues as family, despotism, knowledge, gender, political order, freedom, vengeance, and death. Also containing extant Latin literature's most complex representation of two iconic women of classical myth (and occasional feminist paradigms), Clytemnestra and Cassandra, the tragedy ably transcends the narrow context of late Julio-Claudian Rome and contains much that speaks pointedly to our times. This new full-scale edition of Seneca's Agamemnon offers a comprehensive introduction, newly edited Latin text, English verse translation designed for both performance and high-level academic study, and detailed exegetic, analytic, and interpretative commentary. The aim throughout has been to elucidate the text dramatically as well as philologically, and to locate the play firmly in its contemporary historical and theatrical context and in the ensuing literary and dramatic tradition. As such, its substantial influence on European drama, opera, and ballet from the sixteenth to the nineteenth centuries is given especial emphasis throughout; this and the accessible notes on the text make the edition of particular use not only to scholars and students of classics, but also of comparative literature and drama, and to anyone interested in the cultural dynamics of literary reception and in the interplay between theatre and history.
Download or read book Agamemnon written by Seneca and published by . This book was released on 2017-06-30 with total page 51 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Greek mythology, Agamemnon (/�ɡəˈmɛmnɒn/; Greek: Ἀγαμέμνων, "very steadfast" or "unbowed") was the son of King Atreus and Queen Aerope of Mycenae, the brother of Menelaus, the husband of Clytemnestra and the father of Iphigenia, Electra or Laodike (Λαοδίκη), Orestes and Chrysothemis. Mythical legends make him the king of Mycenae or Argos, thought to be different names for the same area. When Helen, the wife of Menelaus, was taken to Troy by Paris, Agamemnon commanded the united Greek armed forces in the ensuing Trojan War.Upon Agamemnon's return from Troy, he was murdered (according to the oldest surviving account, Odyssey 11.409-11) by Aegisthus, the lover of his wife, Clytemnestra. In old versions of the story, the scene of the murder, when it is specified, is usually the house of Aegisthus, who has not taken up residence in Agamemnon's palace, and it involves an ambush and the deaths of Agamemnon's followers as well. In some later versions Clytemnestra herself does the killing, or they act together as accomplices, killing Agamemnon in his own home.Seneca's "Agamemnon" is a fabula crepidata (Roman tragedy with Greek subject) of c. 1012 lines of verse written by Lucius Annaeus Seneca in the first century AD, which tells the story of Agamemnon, who was killed by his wife in his palace after his return from Troy.
Book Synopsis Agamemnon in Performance 458 BC to AD 2004 by : Fiona Macintosh
Download or read book Agamemnon in Performance 458 BC to AD 2004 written by Fiona Macintosh and published by OUP Oxford. This book was released on 2005-12-08 with total page 502 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Aeschylus' Agamemnon, the first play in the Oresteia trilogy, is one of the most influential theatrical texts in the global canon. In performance, translation, adaptation, along with sung and danced interpretations, it has been familiar in the Greek world and the Roman empire, and from the Renaissance to the contemporary stage. It has been central to the aesthetic and intellectual avant-garde as well as to radical politics of all complexions and to feminist thinking. Contributors to this interdisciplinary collection of eighteen essays on its performance history include classical scholars, theatre historians, and experts in English and comparative literature. All Greek and Latin has been translated; the book is generously illustrated, and supplemented with the useful research aid of a chronological appendix of performances.
Book Synopsis Seneca's Thyestes by : Lucius Annaeus Seneca
Download or read book Seneca's Thyestes written by Lucius Annaeus Seneca and published by . This book was released on 1985 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Although the 'Thyestes' is widely acknowledged to be one of Seneca's most powerful tragedies, there has until now been no modern commentary on the play in any language. My principal aim has thus been to make this extraordinary work more widely accessible and so contribute to a greater appreciation of its quality. The 'Thyestes' seems to me an even better and richer play now that it did when I embarked on this commentary; I hope that the pleasure I have had in exploring it will be reflected in what I have written, and that my enthusiasm will offer some compensation for my failures of understanding." -- preface, p. [ix].
Book Synopsis Seneca's Tragedies: Agamemnon by : Lucius Annaeus Seneca
Download or read book Seneca's Tragedies: Agamemnon written by Lucius Annaeus Seneca and published by . This book was released on 1953 with total page 568 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Tragedies of Seneca by : Lucius Annaeus Seneca
Download or read book The Tragedies of Seneca written by Lucius Annaeus Seneca and published by . This book was released on 1904 with total page 484 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Eyght Tragedie of Seneca: Agamemnon by : Lucius Annaeus Seneca (Philosophus.)
Download or read book The Eyght Tragedie of Seneca: Agamemnon written by Lucius Annaeus Seneca (Philosophus.) and published by . This book was released on 1566 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Complete Tragedies, Volume 2 by : Lucius Annaeus Seneca
Download or read book The Complete Tragedies, Volume 2 written by Lucius Annaeus Seneca and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2022-06-17 with total page 349 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The second of two volumes collecting the complete tragedies of Seneca. Edited by world-renowned classicists Elizabeth Asmis, Shadi Bartsch, and Martha C. Nussbaum, the Complete Works of Lucius Annaeus Seneca offers authoritative, modern English translations of the writings of the Stoic philosopher and playwright (4 BCE–65 CE). The two volumes of The Complete Tragedies presents all of his dramas, expertly rendered by preeminent scholars and translators. The first volume contains Medea, The Phoenician Women, Phaedra, The Trojan Women, and Octavia, the last of which was written in emulation of Senecan tragedies and serves as a unique example of political tragedy. This second volume includes Oedipus, Hercules Mad, Hercules on Oeta, Thyestes, and Agamemnon. High standards of accuracy, clarity, and style are maintained throughout the translations, which render Seneca into verse with as close a correspondence, line for line, to the original as possible, and with special attention paid to meter and overall flow. In addition, each tragedy is prefaced by an original translator’s introduction offering reflections on the work’s context and meaning. Notes are provided for the reader unfamiliar with the culture and history of classical antiquity. Accordingly, The Complete Tragedies will be of use to a general audience and professionals alike, from the Latinless student to scholars and instructors of comparative literature, classics, philosophy, drama, and more.
Download or read book Seneca's Drama written by Norman T. Pratt and published by UNC Press Books. This book was released on 2017-11-01 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With insight and clarity, Norman Pratt makes available to the general reader an understanding of the major elements that shaped Seneca's plays. These he defines as Neo-Stoicism, declamatory rhetoric, and the chaotic, violent conditions of Senecan society. Seneca's drama shows the nature of this society and uses freely the declamatory rhetorical techniques familiar to any well-educated Roman. But the most important element, Pratt argues, is Neo-Stoicism, including technical aspects of this philosophy that previously have escaped notice. With these ingredients Seneca transformed the themes and characters inherited from Greek drama, casting them in a form that so radically departs from the earlier drama that Seneca's plays require a different mode of criticism. "The greatest need in the criticism of this drama is to understand its legitimacy as drama of a new kind in the anicent tradition," Pratt writes. "It cannot be explained as an inferior imitation of Greek tragedy because, though inferior, it is not imitative in the strict sense of the word and has its own nature and motivation." Pratt shows the functional interrelationship among philosophy, rhetoric, and "society" in Seneca's nine plays and assesses the plays' dramatic qualities. He finds that however melodramatic the plays may seem to the modern reader, Seneca's own career as Nero's mentor, statesman, and spokesman was scarcely less tumultuous than the lives of his characters. When the Neo-Stoicism and rhetoric of the plays are charged with Seneca's own tortured, passionate life, Pratt concludes, "The result is inevitably melodrama, melodrama of such energy and force that it changed the course of Western drama." Originally published in 1983. A UNC Press Enduring Edition -- UNC Press Enduring Editions use the latest in digital technology to make available again books from our distinguished backlist that were previously out of print. These editions are published unaltered from the original, and are presented in affordable paperback formats, bringing readers both historical and cultural value.
