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Six tragedies /
Seneca's plays are the product of a sensational, frightening, and oppressive period of history. Tutor to the emperor Nero, Seneca lived through uncertain and violent times, and his dramas depict the extremes of human behaviour. Rape, suicide, child-killing, incestuous love, madness and mutilati...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés Latín |
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Oxford :
Oxford University Press,
2010.
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| Colección: | Oxford world's classics.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | Seneca's plays are the product of a sensational, frightening, and oppressive period of history. Tutor to the emperor Nero, Seneca lived through uncertain and violent times, and his dramas depict the extremes of human behaviour. Rape, suicide, child-killing, incestuous love, madness and mutilation afflict the characters, who are obsessed and destroyed by their feelings. Passion is constantly set against reason, and passion wins out. Seneca forces us to think about the difference between compromise and hypocrisy, about what happens when emotions overwhelm judgement, and about how, if at all, a person can be good, calm, or happy in a corrupt society and under constant threat of death. Seneca was one of the most prolific, versatile, and influential of all classical Latin writers, and the only tragic playwright from ancient Rome whose work survives.--From publisher. |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (xxxii, 240 pages) |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references (pages xxix-xxxii) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780191539725 0191539724 0192807064 9780192807069 9780191604959 019160495X |