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Zusatztext [Littlewood's] talent at teasing out subtleties of character and style while keeping an eye on the complex thematic whole makes the book valuable for advanced undergraduates as well as scholars of Latin drama or Neronian Rome. Informationen zum Autor Cedric Littlewood is Assistant Professor of Greek and Roman Studies at the University of Victoria, Canada Klappentext A. J. Littlewood approaches Seneca's tragedies as Neronian literature rather than as reworkings of Attic drama, and emphasizes their place in the Roman world and in the Latin literary corpus. The Greek tragic myths are for Seneca mediated by non-dramatic Augustan literature. In literary terms Phaedra's desire, Hippolytus' innocence, and Hercules' ambivalent heroism look back through allusion to Roman elegy, pastoral, and epic respectively. Ethically, the artificiality of Senecan tragedy, the consciousness that its own dramatic worlds, events, and people are literary constructs, responds to the contemporary Stoical dismissal of the public world as mere theatre. Zusammenfassung Seneca the Younger's tragedies are adaptations from the Greek. C. A. J. Littlewood emphasizes the place of these plays in the Latin literature and in the philosophical context of the reign of the emperor Nero. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1: Introduction 2: The broken world 3: Images of a flawed technical genesis 4: Meta-theatre and self-consciousness 5: Phaedra: intertextuality and innocence
