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Senecan Tragedy and the Reception of Augustan Poetry (Hardcover)
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Senecan Tragedy and the Reception of Augustan Poetry (Hardcover)
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In their practice of aemulatio, the mimicry of older models of
writing, the Augustan poets often looked to the Greeks: Horace drew
inspiration from the lyric poets, Virgil from Homer, and Ovid from
Hesiod, Callimachus, and others. But by the time of the great Roman
tragedian Seneca, the Augustan poets had supplanted the Greeks as
the "classics" to which Seneca and his contemporaries referred.
Indeed, Augustan poetry is a reservoir of language, motif, and
thought for Seneca's writing. Strangely, however, there has not yet
been a comprehensive study revealing the relationship between
Seneca and his Augustan predecessors. Christopher Trinacty's
Senecan Tragedy and the Reception of Augustan Poetry is the
long-awaited answer to the call for such a study. Senecan Tragedy
and the Reception of Augustan Poetry uniquely places Senecan
tragedy in its Roman literary context, offering a further dimension
to the motivations and meaning behind Seneca's writings. By reading
Senecan tragedy through an intertextual lens, Trinacty reveals
Seneca's awareness of his historical moment, in which the Augustan
period was eroding steadily around him. Seneca, looking back to the
poetry of Horace, Virgil, and Ovid, acts as a critical interpreter
of both their work and their era. He deconstructs the language of
the Augustan poets, refiguring it through the perspective of his
tragic protagonists. In doing so, he positions himself as a critic
of the Augustan tradition and reveals a poetic voice that often
subverts the classical ethos of that tradition. Through this
process of reappropriation Seneca reveals much about himself as a
playwright and as a man: In the inventive manner in which he
re-employs the Augustan poets' language, thought, and poetics
within the tragic framework, Seneca gives his model works new-and
uniquely Senecan-life. Trinacty's analysis sheds new light both on
Seneca and on his Augustan predecessors. As such, Senecan Tragedy
and the Reception of Augustan Poetry promises to be a
groundbreaking contribution to the study of both Senecan tragedy
and Augustan poetry.
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