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Seneca: Thyestes - Edited with Introduction, Translation, and Commentary (Hardcover)
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Seneca: Thyestes - Edited with Introduction, Translation, and Commentary (Hardcover)
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Although the myth of Atreus' gruesome vengeance on his brother,
Thyestes, was embedded in Greek and Roman culture long before his
time, Seneca's play is the only literary or dramatic account to
have survived intact. Written probably in late Neronian Rome,
Thyestes is now widely regarded as one of the tragedian's finest
achievements and represents Seneca's most mature reflections on
power and civilization, and on the tragic theatre itself. The
play's impact on European literature and drama from antiquity to
the present has been considerable; now much studied in universities
and colleges, and regularly adapted and performed, it still
contains much that speaks pointedly to our times: its focus on
appetite, lust, violence, and horror; its preoccupation with
rhetoric, morality, and power; its concern with the problematics of
kinship, and with political, social, and religious institutions and
their fragility and impotence; its dramatization of reason's
failure, the triumph and cyclicity of evil, the determinism of
history, the mastery of the world through mastery of the word; its
theatricalized and godless universe. This new edition of Seneca's
Thyestes offers a comprehensive introduction, newly edited Latin
text, an English verse translation designed for both performance
and high-level academic study, and a detailed exegetic, analytic,
and interpretative commentary on the play. The aim throughout has
been to elucidate the text dramatically as well as philologically,
and to locate the play firmly in its contemporary historical and
theatrical context and in the ensuing literary and dramatic
tradition. As such, the reception of the play by European
dramatists is given especial emphasis in the introduction and
throughout the commentary; this and the accessible notes on the
text make this edition of particular use not only to scholars and
students of classics, but also of literature and drama, and to
anyone interested in the cultural dynamics of literary reception
and in the interplay between theatre and history.
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