Six Tragedies

Description

This is a lively, readable and accurate verse translation of the six best plays by one of the most influential of all classical Latin writers. The volume includes Phaedra, Oedipus, Medea, Trojan Women, Hercules Furens, and Thyestes, together with an invaluable introduction and notes.

• The fullest single-volume verse translation of Seneca's tragedies, this edition includes six major plays by one of the most prolific, versatile, and influential of all classical Latin writers.
• Seneca is a writer for uncertain and violent times, whose plays are the product of a sensational and frightening period of history, and whose themes resonate today.
• Emily Wilson's new translation is lively, readable, and accurate, and corresponds line-for-line to Seneca's Latin.
• The Introduction provides a succinct account of Seneca's life and times, his philosophical beliefs, the literary form of the plays and their immense influence on European literature.
• Includes an up-to-date bibliography and explanatory notes which identify mythological allusions.

About the Author(s)

Seneca

Table of Contents

Phaedra
Oedipus
Medea
Trojan Women
Hercules Furens
Thyestes

Reviews

"I am awstruck by how good this is" - Times Literary Supplement, A. N. Wilson's Book of The Year, 3/12/2010

"Wilson catches the beauty of their descriptive passages with simple felicity." - TLS,

"A fine new translation." - William Fitzgerald, Times Literary Supplement

"This edition of Seneca's tragedies is fresh, affordable, and teachable." - Bryn Mawr Classical Review