Six Tragedies (Oxford World's Classics)
Seneca, Emily Wilson
Seneca ’s tragedies are intense. They show us people who push themselves too far, beyond the limits of ordinary behaviour and emotion. Passion is constantly set against reason, and passion wins out: as Seneca’s Phaedra asks: ‘What can reason do? Passion, passion rules’ (184). Seneca’s characters are obsessed and destroyed by their emotions: they are dominated by rage, ambition, lust, jealousy, desire, anger, grief, madness, and fear. The literary style of these plays, too, is intense: they use dense, witty, hyperbolic language and imagery to evoke an endless struggle for more and more absolute power.
Seneca’s tragedies reflect the emotional and political intensity of the time in which they were written. Lucius Annaeus Seneca was a contemporary of Jesus, born some time between 1 bce and 4ce
He lived in one of the most interesting and dangerous periods of Roman history, under the emperors Tiberius, Gaius (Caligula), Claudius, and Nero. The Roman Republic was long dead. Over the course of Seneca’s lifetime the empire expanded, while Rome’s rulers grew ever more corrupt. Seneca was born in Corduba, in southern Spain, at a distance from Rome, the centre of imperial power, and both his parents had also been born in Spain. Seneca’s tragedies have many passages that evoke the vast size of the Roman empire: lists of the most far-flung regions lying at or beyond the borders of Roman power. The fact that Seneca came from an outlying part of the empire may have made him particularly aware of the scale of Roman dominance in the western world of his time.
Seneca’s tragedies reflect the emotional and political intensity of the time in which they were written. Lucius Annaeus Seneca was a contemporary of Jesus, born some time between 1 bce and 4ce
He lived in one of the most interesting and dangerous periods of Roman history, under the emperors Tiberius, Gaius (Caligula), Claudius, and Nero. The Roman Republic was long dead. Over the course of Seneca’s lifetime the empire expanded, while Rome’s rulers grew ever more corrupt. Seneca was born in Corduba, in southern Spain, at a distance from Rome, the centre of imperial power, and both his parents had also been born in Spain. Seneca’s tragedies have many passages that evoke the vast size of the Roman empire: lists of the most far-flung regions lying at or beyond the borders of Roman power. The fact that Seneca came from an outlying part of the empire may have made him particularly aware of the scale of Roman dominance in the western world of his time.
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2010
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1
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Oxford University Press
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english
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277
ISBN:
9780192807169
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Oxford World's Classics
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PDF, 810 KB
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english, 2010
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