Seneca: Phoenissae - Edited with Introduction, Translation, and Commentary

Phoenissae is probably Seneca's final play, a work of great dramatic, poetic, and intellectual force, permeated by issues central to Senecan thinking and tragic practice. This edition offers a newly edited Latin text, English verse translation, and a detailed commentary setting the work in its theatrical and historical context.

Table des matières

• Preface


• INTRODUCTION


• I Seneca and Rome


• II Roman Theatre


• III The Declamatory Style


• IV Seneca's Theatre of Violence


• V Seneca and Suicide


• VI The Myth Before Seneca


• VII The Play


• VIII Reception of Seneca's Phoenissae


• IX Metre


• X The Translation


• TEXT AND TRANSLATION


• Selective Critical Apparatus


• Differences from the 1986 Oxford Classical Text and the 2002 Loeb Classical Library Edition


• COMMENTARY


• Select Bibliography


• Indexes


• I Latin Words


• II Passages of Other Plays of the Senecan Tragic Corpus


• III General Index

A propos de l'auteur

A. J. Boyle was born in 1942 in Warrington, England, and was educated at St. Benedict's Primary School Warrington, St. Francis Xavier's College Liverpool, Manchester University, and Downing College Cambridge. After a brief spell as a Bye-Fellow of Downing College, he took up a faculty position at Monash University in Melbourne Australia, where he taught for twenty years. He became Professor of Classics at the University of Southern California in Los Angeles at the beginning of 1989 and remain so today. In Australia he co-founded the international literary journal Ramus, which he edited until it ceased at the end of 2023.

Résumé

Phoenissae is probably Seneca's final play, a work of great dramatic, poetic, and intellectual force, permeated by issues central to Senecan thinking and tragic practice. This edition offers a newly edited Latin text, English verse translation, and a detailed commentary setting the work in its theatrical and historical context.

Détails du produit

• Collaboration: A. J. Boyle (Edition et traduction)
• Edition: Oxford Academic
• Langues: Anglais
• Format d'édition: Livre Relié
• Sortie: 01.04.2029
• EAN: 9780198889168
• ISBN: 978-0-19-888916-8
• Catégories: Littérature > Littérature (récits); Sciences humaines, art, musique > Linguistique et littérature > Linguistique et littérature anglaises; DRAMA / General, Latin, LITERARY CRITICISM / Drama, LITERARY CRITICISM / Ancient & Classical, LITERARY COLLECTIONS / General, Classical texts, Literary studies: plays & playwrights, Plays, Playscripts, BCE to c 500 CE, BCE period – Protohistory, Ancient, classical and medieval texts, Literary studies: plays and playwrights