Hercules is a tragedy of great theatrical, poetic, and cultural value, addressing central issues of early imperial Rome, even as it speaks profoundly to our times. This edition offers a newly edited Latin text, English verse translation, and a detailed commentary setting the work in its theatrical and historical context.
Hercules is a tragedy of great theatrical, poetic, and cultural value, addressing central issues of early imperial Rome, even as it speaks profoundly to our times. This edition offers a newly edited Latin text, English verse translation, and a detailed commentary setting the work in its theatrical and historical context.
A. J. Boyle was born in 1942 in Warrington, England, and was educated at St. Benedict's Primary School Warrington, St. Francis Xavier's College Liverpool, Manchester University, and Downing College Cambridge. After a brief spell as a Bye-Fellow of Downing College, he took up a faculty position at Monash University in Melbourne Australia, where he taught for twenty years. He became Professor of Classics at the University of Southern California in Los Angeles at the beginning of 1989 and remains so today. In Australia he co-founded the international literary journal Ramus, which he still edits in its 51st year.
Inhaltsangabe
Preface Introduction I: Seneca and Rome II: Roman Theatre III: The Declamatory Style IV: Seneca's Theatre of Violence V: Seneca and Suicide VI: The Myth before Seneca VII: The Play VIII: Reception of Seneca's Hercules IX: Metre X: The Translation TEXT AND TRANSLATION Selective Critical Apparatus Differences from the 1986 Oxford Classical Text COMMENTARY Select Bibliography Indexes I: Latin Words II: Passages from Other Plays of the Senecan Tragic Corpus III: General Index
Preface Introduction I: Seneca and Rome II: Roman Theatre III: The Declamatory Style IV: Seneca's Theatre of Violence V: Seneca and Suicide VI: The Myth before Seneca VII: The Play VIII: Reception of Seneca's Hercules IX: Metre X: The Translation TEXT AND TRANSLATION Selective Critical Apparatus Differences from the 1986 Oxford Classical Text COMMENTARY Select Bibliography Indexes I: Latin Words II: Passages from Other Plays of the Senecan Tragic Corpus III: General Index
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