Seneca, the Tragedies

by Seneca

Book Overview

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 were not Senecan in its absurdity, melodrama, and terror. Here is an honest artist confronting the irrationality and cruelty of his world-the Rome of Caligula, Claudius,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 080184309X
• ISBN13: 9780801843099
• Release Date: April 1992
• Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
• Length: 224 Pages
• Weight: 0.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.0" x 9.1"