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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...

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1. Verfasser: Seneca, Lucius Annaeus, approximately 4 B.C.-65 A.D
Weitere Verfasser: Wilson, Emily R., 1971-
Format: Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:English
Latin
Veröffentlicht: Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2010.
Schriftenreihe:Oxford world's classics.
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Online-Zugang:Volltext
Zusammenfassung: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.
Beschreibung:1 online resource (xxxii, 240 pages)
Bibliographie:Includes bibliographical references (pages [xxix]-xxxii) and index.
ISBN:9780191539725
0191539724
0192807064
9780192807069
9780191604959
019160495X
9781282501959
128250195X