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Four Tragedies and Octavia

Name: Four Tragedies and Octavia
Brand: Penguin Books
SKU: 39589151
Price: 8.79 EUR
Availability: InStock
Author: Seneca
ISBN: 9780141916330

Seneca

E. Watling

Language

English

E-book Adobe ePub DRM

Libristo code: 39589151

Publishers Penguin Books, February 2005

Based on the legends used in Greek drama, Seneca's plays are notable for the exuberant ruthlessness... Full description

Libristo code: 39589151

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Based on the legends used in Greek drama, Seneca's plays are notable for the exuberant ruthlessness with which disastrous events are foretold and then pursued to their tragic and often bloodthirsty ends. Thyestes depicts the menace of an ancestral curse hanging over two feuding brothers, while Phaedra portrays a woman tormented by fatal passion for her stepson. In The Trojan Women, the widowed Hecuba and Andromache await their fates at the hands of the conquering Greeks, and Oedipus follows the downfall of the royal House of Thebes. Octavia is a grim commentary on Nero's tyrannical rule and the execution of his wife, with Seneca himself appearing as an ineffective counsellor attempting to curb the atrocities of the emperor.