Seneca
The Tragedies
Seneca author David R Slavitt translator
Format:Paperback
Publisher:Johns Hopkins University Press
Published:1st Apr '92
Currently unavailable, and unfortunately no date known when it will be back
The language in these translations [is] as fresh and gleaming as blood just spilled. -- Eleanor Wilner
The volume includes Trojan Women, Thyestes, Phaedra, Medea, and Agamemnon, plus a preface.The volume includes Trojan Women, Thyestes, Phaedra, Medea, and Agamemnon, plus a preface.
Slavitt's ability is clearly in evidence... These translations are rendered in lucid, contemporary English, bringing before us the atrocities, horrors, and grotesqueries of Imperial Rome. Classical Outlook Slavitt's translation is... lively and sometimes witty. Times Literary Supplement A good, sensational Senecan read. Queen's Quarterly
ISBN: 9780801843099
Dimensions: unknown
Weight: 318g
224 pages