Seneca The Tragedies |
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Author:
| Seneca, |
Translator:
| Slavitt, David R. |
Series title: | Complete Roman Drama in Translation Ser. |
ISBN: | 978-0-8018-4932-9 |
Publication Date: | Dec 1994 |
Publisher: | Johns Hopkins University Press
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Book Format: | Paperback |
List Price: | AUD $67.99 |
Book Description:
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Are there no limits to human cruelty? Is there any divine justice? Do the gods even matter if they do not occupy themselves with rewarding virtue and punishing wickedness? Seneca's plays might be dismissed as bombastic and extravagant answers to such questions--if so much of human history were not ''Senecan'' in its absurdity, melodrama, and ......
Are there no limits to human cruelty? Is there any divine justice? Do the gods even matter if they do not occupy themselves with rewarding virtue and punishing wickedness? Seneca's plays might be dismissed as bombastic and extravagant answers to such questions--if so much of human history were not ''Senecan'' in its absurdity, melodrama, and ......