Despite ancient Roman fascination with the tragic myth of Mycenae's 'king of kings', Seneca's Agamemnon is the only dramatic treatment from this tradition to have survived since antiquity. This new edition comprises an extensive introduction, Latin text, English verse translation, and detailed line-by-line commentary on the play.
Despite ancient Roman fascination with the tragic myth of Mycenae's 'king of kings', Seneca's Agamemnon is the only dramatic treatment from this tradition to have survived since antiquity. This new edition comprises an extensive introduction, Latin text, English verse translation, and detailed line-by-line commentary on the play.
Anthony James Boyle was born in 1942 and educated at St Francis Xavier College in Liverpool, before attending Manchester University and Downing College, Cambridge, where he also taught. He held a teaching position at Monash University in Melbourne for twenty years before moving to the USA in 1989, where he is now Professor of Classics at the University of Southern California, Los Angeles. He has been editor of the Classical literary journal, Ramus, since its inception in 1972.
Inhaltsangabe
INTRODUCTION I. Seneca and Rome II. Roman Theatre III. The Declamatory Style IV. Seneca's Theatre of Violence V. Seneca on Anger VI. The Myth before Seneca VII. The Play VIII. Reception of Seneca's Agamemnon IX. Metre X. The Translation TEXT AND TRANSLATION Selective Critical Apparatus Differences from the 1986 Oxford Classical Text COMMENTARY Endmatter Select Bibliography Indexes: I. Latin Words II. Passages from Other Plays of the Senecan Tragic Corpus III. General Index
INTRODUCTION I. Seneca and Rome II. Roman Theatre III. The Declamatory Style IV. Seneca's Theatre of Violence V. Seneca on Anger VI. The Myth before Seneca VII. The Play VIII. Reception of Seneca's Agamemnon IX. Metre X. The Translation TEXT AND TRANSLATION Selective Critical Apparatus Differences from the 1986 Oxford Classical Text COMMENTARY Endmatter Select Bibliography Indexes: I. Latin Words II. Passages from Other Plays of the Senecan Tragic Corpus III. General Index
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