Gebundenes Buch

Seneca: Phoenissae

Edited with Introduction, Translation, and Commentary

Herausgeber: Boyle, A J / Übersetzer: Boyle, A J

Beschreibung

Phoenissae is probably Seneca's final play, a work of great dramatic, poetic, and intellectual force, permeated by issues central to Senecan thinking and tragic practice. This edition offers a newly edited Latin text, English verse translation, and a detailed commentary setting the work in its theatrical and historical context.

Autor

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 remain so today. In Australia he co-founded the international literary journal Ramus, which he edited until it ceased at the end of 2023.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press
• Seitenzahl: 496
• Erscheinungstermin: 27. November 2025
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 217mm x 147mm x 34mm
• Gewicht: 735g
• ISBN-13: 9780198889168
• ISBN-10: 019888916X
• Artikelnr.: 73851934