John G. Fitch's new Latin text of Seneca's play, Hercules
Furens, is based on a collation of the chief manuscripts, including
the Paris manuscript T. In his introduction, Fitch traces the
conflicting classical portrayals of Hercules a figure embodying
altruism and aggrandizement, restraint and wildness and argues that
in the play, the untamed side of his nature ultimately turns
against him and destroys him.
In introductory notes to individual acts and choral odes, Fitch
addresses the play's thematic development and discusses probably
influences, including the Greek tragedies of the fifth century
B.C., the tragedies of the Hellenistic and Roman Republican
periods, and the writings of the Augustan poets, particularly Ovid.
His line-by-line commentary focuses on such stylistic matters as
wordplay, soundplay, meter, diction, and rhetoric, and he also
looks closely at line divisions and at characteristic metrical
patterns and anapestic odes. Fitch's assessment of the figure of
Hercules in ancient literature, popular religion, and
literary/moral tradition will be of compelling interest to
classicists and students of later periods."
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