Seneca's Troades: A Literary Introduction with Text, Translation and Commentary

by Elaine Fantham

Book Overview

Elaine Fantham provides here a fresh Latin text of Seneca's Traodes and an English version, with an extensive introduction and critical commentary--the first separate treatment of the play in English since Kingery's 1908 edition. Arguing that the Troades was not intended for stage production, the author also discusses the atmosphere of Rome at the time the play was written, when both political and poetic life were felt to be in decline. Although...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0691656177
• ISBN13: 9780691656175
• Release Date: April 2019
• Publisher: Princeton University Press
• Length: 432 Pages
• Weight: 1.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.1" x 9.2"