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Seneca's Troades

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Author : Elaine Fantham
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 0691656177
Total Pages : 426 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (916 download)

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Download or read book Seneca's Troades written by Elaine Fantham and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2019-04-23 with total page 426 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Elaine Fantham provides here a fresh Latin text of Seneca's Traodes and an English version, with an extensive introduction and critical commentary--the first separate treatment of the play in English since Kingery's 1908 edition. Arguing that the Troades was not intended for stage production, the author also discusses the atmosphere of Rome at the time the play was written, when both political and poetic life were felt to be in decline. Although Seneca's plays reflect his experience of tyranny, corruption, and compromise, they are enriched by his contract with the nobler world of poetry. Demonstrating how Seneca loved and imitated the Augustan poets, Professor Fantham reveals the originality that is part of his imitation. Professor Fantham discusses not only the particular characteristics of Seneca's generation but the interplay of his moral and poetic concerns in relationship to his subject--the Trojan captivity.By analyzing his reactions to accounts of this theme in Homer, Euripides, and Augustan epic, she explains his methods and motives in composition. Comparison of the play with Seneca's other works and with other drama exposes some inconsistency, formulaic writing, and excess of ingenuity. It also reveals the influence of epic in loosening his dramtic form and makes apparent his immense vitality. Elaine Fantham is Professor of Classics at the University of Toronto and author of Comparative Studies in the Republican Latin Imagery (Toronto). Originally published in 1983. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.

Trojan Women

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Author : Lucius Annaeus Seneca
Publisher : Cornell University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780801494314
Total Pages : 132 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (943 download)

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Download or read book Trojan Women written by Lucius Annaeus Seneca and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 1986 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The play explores the folly of war, focussing on the trials of the royal family of the fallen city of Troy (Hecuba, Andromache and their children) as they mourn their past and current sufferings, and the continued assault of the Greeks on the survivors as they look to sacrifice two of the royal progeny, Polyxena and Astyanax.

Seneca's Troades

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Author : Lucius Annaeus Seneca
Publisher : Francis Cairns Publications
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 276 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (321 download)

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Download or read book Seneca's Troades written by Lucius Annaeus Seneca and published by Francis Cairns Publications. This book was released on 1994 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Seneca (ca 1 B.C.-A.D. 65) sets his Troades in the immediate aftermath of the fall of Troy. The Trojan women (the troades) were to become the prizes of the victorious Greeks. As the play opens, their husbands and sons dead, their city in ruins, they wait, lamenting, to be allotted to their new masters. But before the Greek warriors sail home with their spoils, further horrors are in store. Pyrrhus, son of Achilles, demands the sacrifice of the Trojan princess Polyxena as a blood offering to his dead father. And the prophet Calchas decrees that the little son of Hecuba, wife of the Trojan prince and hero Hector, must be slaughtered. In this cruel situation the thoughts, actions and reactions of both sides, Greek men and Trojan women, create the unfolding drama. The themes of power, culture, freedom, delusion, history and death make Troades a brilliant piece of theatre, whose concerns speak as directly now as they did to the spectacular, histrionic and self-consuming world of early imperial Rome. The English translation, like that of Boyle's earlier Phaedra edition, is printed facing the Latin and aims at verbal and stylistic fidelity. The introduction and detailed commentary fill in the play's background for students of Latin and of Roman civilisation, and for the generally interested reader.

The Trojan Women and Other Plays

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Author : Euripides
Publisher : OUP Oxford
ISBN 13 : 0191606189
Total Pages : 778 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (916 download)

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Download or read book The Trojan Women and Other Plays written by Euripides and published by OUP Oxford. This book was released on 2001-09-20 with total page 778 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hecuba The Trojan Women Andromache In the three great war plays contained in this volume Euripides subjects the sufferings of Troy's survivors to a harrowing examination. The horrific brutality which both women and children undergo evokes a response of unparalleled intensity in the playwright whom Aristotle called the most tragic of the poets. Yet the new battleground of the aftermath of war is one in which the women of Troy evince an overwhelming greatness of spirit. We weep for the aged Hecuba in her name play and in The Trojan Women, yet we respond with an at times appalled admiration to her resilience amid unrelieved suffering. Andromache, the slave-concubine of her husband's killer, endures her existence in the victor's country with a Stoic nobility. Of their time yet timeless, these plays insist on the victory of the female spirit amid the horrors visited on them by the gods and men during war.

L. Annaeus Seneca Troades

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Author : Atze J. Keulen
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004351086
Total Pages : 583 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (43 download)

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Download or read book L. Annaeus Seneca Troades written by Atze J. Keulen and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2017-09-18 with total page 583 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A.J. Keulen’s new commentary on Seneca’s Troades is the fruit of a lifetime devotion to this play. This extensive philological commentary on the Troades is a most welcome contribution to the study of Seneca’s plays. Meaning, history and usage of Seneca’s vocabulary are thoroughly discussed. The author provides ample comparison with Senecan prose and rival poets. In addition, the commentary addresses composition and word order, and discusses textual, metrical and grammatical difficulties. A full bibliography and three indices complete this valuable book.

The Classical World

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 764 pages
Book Rating : 4.E/5 ( download)

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Euripidean Polemic

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Author : N. T. Croally
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521464901
Total Pages : 328 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (649 download)

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Download or read book Euripidean Polemic written by N. T. Croally and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1994-10-20 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book sets out to interpret Euripides' The Trojan Women in the light of a view of tragedy which sees its function, as it was understood in classical Athens, as being didactic. This function, the author argues, was carried out by an examination of the ideology to which the audience subscribed. The Trojan Women, powerfully exploiting the dramatic context of the aftermath of the Trojan War, is a remarkable example of tragic teaching. The play questions a series of mutually reinforcing polarities (man/god; man/woman; Greek/barbarian; free/slave) through which an Athenian citizen defined himself, and also examines the dangers of rhetoric and the value of victory in war. By making the didactic function of tragedy the basis of interpretation, the author is able to offer a coherent view of a number of long-standing problems in Euripidean and tragic criticism, namely the relation of Euripides to the sophists, the pervasive self-reference and anachronism in Euripides, the problem of contemporary reference, and the construction and importance of the tragic scene. The book, which makes use of recent scholarship both in Classics and in critical theory, should be read by all those interested in Greek tragedy and in the culture of late fifth-century Athens.

The Classical Weekly

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 266 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (321 download)

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Download or read book The Classical Weekly written by and published by . This book was released on 1910 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Classical Weekly

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 264 pages
Book Rating : 4.E/5 ( download)

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The Life and Dramatic Works of Pradon

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Author : Thomas Wainwright Bussom
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 206 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (5 download)

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Download or read book The Life and Dramatic Works of Pradon written by Thomas Wainwright Bussom and published by . This book was released on 1922 with total page 206 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Tragic Seneca

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Author : A. J. Boyle
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134802315
Total Pages : 273 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (348 download)

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Download or read book Tragic Seneca written by A. J. Boyle and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-05-13 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tragic Seneca undertakes a radical re-evaluation of Seneca's plays, their relationship to Roman imperial culture and their instrumental role in the evolution of the European theatrical tradition. Following an introduction on the history of the Roman theatre, the book provides a dramatic and cultural critique of the whole of Seneca's corpus, analysing the declamatory form of the plays, their rhetoric, interiority, stagecraft and spectacle, dramatic, ideological and moral structure and their overt theatricality. Each of Seneca's plays is examined in detail, locating the force of Senecan drama not only in the moral complexity of the texts and their representations of power, violence, history, suffering and the self, but the semiotic interplay of text, tradition and culture. The later chapters focus on Seneca's influence on Italian, English and French drama of the Renaissance. A.J. Boyle argues that tragedians such as Cinthio, Kyd, Marlowe, Shakespeare, Webster, Corneille, and Racine owe a debt to Seneca that goes beyond allusion, dramatic form and the treatment of tyranny and revenge to the development of the tragic sensibility and the metatheatrical mind. Tragic Seneca attempts to restore Seneca to a central position in the European literary tradition. It will provide readers and directors of Seneca's plays with the essential critical guide to their intellectual, cultural and dramatic complexity.

Intratextuality and Latin Literature

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Author : Stephen J. Harrison
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN 13 : 3110611023
Total Pages : 506 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (16 download)

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Download or read book Intratextuality and Latin Literature written by Stephen J. Harrison and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2018-10-08 with total page 506 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Recent years have witnessed an increased interest in classical studies in the ways meaning is generated through the medium of intertextuality, namely how different texts of the same or different authors communicate and interact with each other. Attention (although on a lesser scale) has also been paid to the manner in which meaning is produced through interaction between various parts of the same text or body of texts within the overall production of a single author, namely intratextuality. Taking off from the seminal volume on Intratextuality: Greek and Roman Textual Relations, edited by A. Sharrock / H. Morales (Oxford 2000), which largely sets the theoretical framework for such internal associations within classical texts, this collective volume brings together twenty-seven contributions, written by an international team of experts, exploring the evolution of intratextuality from Late Republic to Late Antiquity across a wide range of authors, genres and historical periods. Of particular interest are also the combined instances of intra- and intertextual poetics as well as the way in which intratextuality in Latin literature draws on reading practices and critical methods already theorized and operative in Greek antiquity.

Hecuba

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Author : Euripides
Publisher : OUP Oxford
ISBN 13 : 9780198150930
Total Pages : 238 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (59 download)

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Download or read book Hecuba written by Euripides and published by OUP Oxford. This book was released on 2000 with total page 238 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the final in a series of three volumes of a new prose translation of Euripides' most popular plays. In the three great war plays contained in this volume Euripides subjects the sufferings of Troy's survivors to a harrowing examination. The horrific brutality which both women and children undergo evokes a response of unparalleled intensity in the playwright whom Aristotle called the most tragic of the poets. Yet the new battle-ground of the aftermath of war is one in which the women of Troy evince an overwhelming greatness of spirit. We weep for the aged Hecuba in her name play and in the Trojan Women, yet we respond with an at times appalled admiration to her resilience amid unrelieved suffering. And in her name play Andromache, the slave-concubine of her husband's killer, endures her existence in the victor's country with a Stoic nobility. Of their time yet timeless, these plays insist on the victory of the female spirit amid the horrors visited on them by the gods and men during war.

Homer’s Iliad and the Trojan War

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Author : Jan Haywood
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 135001270X
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (5 download)

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Download or read book Homer’s Iliad and the Trojan War written by Jan Haywood and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2018-03-22 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this new volume, Jan Haywood and Naoíse Mac Sweeney investigate the position of Homer's Iliad within the wider Trojan War tradition through a series of detailed case studies. From ancient Mesopotamia to twenty-first century America, these examples are drawn from a range of historical and cultural contexts; and from Athenian pot paintings to twelfth-century German scholarship, they engage with a range of different media and genres. Inspired by the dialogues inherent in the process of reception, the book adopts a dialogic structure. In each chapter, paired essays by Haywood and Mac Sweeney offer contrasting authorial voices addressing a single theme, thereby drawing out connections and dissonances between a diverse suite of classical and post-classical Iliadic receptions. The resulting book offers new insights, both into individual instances of Iliadic reception in particular historical contexts, but also into the workings of a complex story tradition. The centrality of the Iliad within the wider Trojan War tradition is shown to be a function of conscious engagement not only with Iliadic content, but also with Iliadic status and the iconic idea of the Homeric.

Short epics

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Author : Maffeo Vegio
Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780674044616
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (446 download)

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Download or read book Short epics written by Maffeo Vegio and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2009-06-30 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Maffeo Vegio (1407-1458) was the outstanding Latin poet of the first half of the fifteenth century. This volume includes Book XIII of Vergil's Aeneid, Vegio's famous continuation of the Roman epic, which was extremely popular in the later Renaissance, printed many times and translated into every major European language (and even into Scottish). It also contains three other epic works: Astyanax, based on an episode in the Iliad; The Golden Fleece (Vellum Aureum); and Antonias, a short epic based on the life of Saint Anthony of Egypt. Antonias is the first Christian epic of the Renaissance, a precursor of Milton's Paradise Lost. This volume contains the first modern editions of the Latin text of Antonias and Astyanax. Table of Contents: Introduction Book XIII of the Aeneid Astyanax The Golden Fleece Antoniad Appendix Note on the Text Notes to the Text Notes to the Translation Bibliography Index

Troades

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Author : Seneca
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781521050378
Total Pages : 45 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (53 download)

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Download or read book Troades written by Seneca and published by . This book was released on 2017-04-11 with total page 45 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Troades (The Trojan Women) is a fabula crepidata (Roman tragedy with Greek subject) of c. 1179 lines of verse written by Lucius Annaeus Seneca."Troades" ("The Trojan Women") is one of the best-known tragedies of the Roman playwright Seneca the Younger, probably written around 54 CE. Largely based on "The Trojan Women" and "Hecuba" by Euripides, the play explores the folly of war, focussing on the trials of the royal family of the fallen city of Troy (Hecuba, Andromache and their children) as they mourn their past and current sufferings, and the continued assault of the Greeks on the survivors as they look to sacrifice two of the royal progeny, Polyxena and Astyanax.

Catalogue of Printed Books

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 504 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (334 download)

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Download or read book Catalogue of Printed Books written by and published by . This book was released on 1887 with total page 504 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: