Seneca Agamemnon
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Seneca Agamemnon
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Author : Lucius Annaeus Seneca
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2004-08-26
Seneca Agamemnon written by Lucius Annaeus Seneca and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2004-08-26 with Drama categories.
In this edition Professor Tarrant provides a much needed critical text.
Agamemnon
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Author : Lucius Annaeus Seneca
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Release Date : 2019
Agamemnon written by Lucius Annaeus Seneca and has been published by Oxford University Press, USA this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019 with Drama categories.
The tragic myth of Agamemnon, Mycenae's 'king of kings', who sacrificed his own daughter in order to sack the great city of Troy and returned home only to be assassinated by his wife and her lover, has been a constant source of fascination for writers and artists from classical Greece right up to the present day. The ancient Romans were drawn to the myth, but Seneca's tragedy is the only dramatic treatment from this tradition to have survived intact: often undervalued, it is in fact intellectually and poetically one of his richest plays - dramatically innovative, spectacular, and pervasively self-reflective. Its strong lyric and theatrical qualities - from polymetric choral odes to powerful meditative soliloquies-perfectly complement Seneca's complex presentation of the slaying of husband, father, and king and his exploration of such attendant issues as family, despotism, knowledge, gender, political order, freedom, vengeance, and death. Also containing extant Latin literature's most complex representation of two iconic women of classical myth (and occasional feminist paradigms), Clytemnestra and Cassandra, the tragedy ably transcends the narrow context of late Julio-Claudian Rome and contains much that speaks pointedly to our times. This new full-scale edition of Seneca's Agamemnon offers a comprehensive introduction, newly edited Latin text, English verse translation designed for both performance and high-level academic study, and detailed exegetic, analytic, and interpretative commentary. The aim throughout has been to elucidate the text dramatically as well as philologically, and to locate the play firmly in its contemporary historical and theatrical context and in the ensuing literary and dramatic tradition. As such, its substantial influence on European drama, opera, and ballet from the sixteenth to the nineteenth centuries is given especial emphasis throughout; this and the accessible notes on the text make the edition of particular use not only to scholars and students of classics, but also of comparative literature and drama, and to anyone interested in the cultural dynamics of literary reception and in the interplay between theatre and history.
Agamemnon
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Author : Seneca
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2017-06-30
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In Greek mythology, Agamemnon (/�ɡəˈmɛmnɒn/; Greek: Ἀγαμέμνων, "very steadfast" or "unbowed") was the son of King Atreus and Queen Aerope of Mycenae, the brother of Menelaus, the husband of Clytemnestra and the father of Iphigenia, Electra or Laodike (Λαοδίκη), Orestes and Chrysothemis. Mythical legends make him the king of Mycenae or Argos, thought to be different names for the same area. When Helen, the wife of Menelaus, was taken to Troy by Paris, Agamemnon commanded the united Greek armed forces in the ensuing Trojan War.Upon Agamemnon's return from Troy, he was murdered (according to the oldest surviving account, Odyssey 11.409-11) by Aegisthus, the lover of his wife, Clytemnestra. In old versions of the story, the scene of the murder, when it is specified, is usually the house of Aegisthus, who has not taken up residence in Agamemnon's palace, and it involves an ambush and the deaths of Agamemnon's followers as well. In some later versions Clytemnestra herself does the killing, or they act together as accomplices, killing Agamemnon in his own home.Seneca's "Agamemnon" is a fabula crepidata (Roman tragedy with Greek subject) of c. 1012 lines of verse written by Lucius Annaeus Seneca in the first century AD, which tells the story of Agamemnon, who was killed by his wife in his palace after his return from Troy.
Agamemnon
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Author : Howard Colyer
language : en
Publisher: Lulu.com
Release Date : 2013-12-31
Agamemnon written by Howard Colyer and has been published by Lulu.com this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-12-31 with categories.
The war is over and the hero returns. But what good is a hero without a war? What else does he know but warfare? And his city has managed without him. The gap left by his departure has closed. Yet the problems he left behind have remained. They have lain dormant. But his return revives them.
Studley S Translations Of Seneca S Agamemnon And Medea
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Author : Lucius Annaeus Seneca
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1963
Studley S Translations Of Seneca S Agamemnon And Medea written by Lucius Annaeus Seneca and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1963 with English drama categories.
Agamemnon
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Author : Lucius Annaeus Seneca
language : it
Publisher: Fabrizio Serra Editore
Release Date : 2007
Agamemnon written by Lucius Annaeus Seneca and has been published by Fabrizio Serra Editore this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2007 with Drama categories.
Seneca S Tragedies Agamemnon
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Author : Lucius Annaeus Seneca
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1953
Seneca S Tragedies Agamemnon written by Lucius Annaeus Seneca and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1953 with Mythology, Classical categories.
Agamemnon
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Author : Aeschylus
language : de
Publisher:
Release Date : 1903
Agamemnon written by Aeschylus and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1903 with categories.
Studley S Translations Of Seneca S Agamemnon And Medea
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Author : Lucius Annaeus Seneca
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1913
Studley S Translations Of Seneca S Agamemnon And Medea written by Lucius Annaeus Seneca and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1913 with English drama categories.
Seneca S Complete Tragedies
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Author : Lucius Annaeus Seneca
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2017-06-30
Seneca S Complete Tragedies written by Lucius Annaeus Seneca and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-06-30 with Mythology, Greek categories.
This complete collection contains the following plays scholars have ascribed to Seneca: Agamemnon, Hercules, Hercules Oetaeus I & II, Medea, Oedipus, Phaedra, Phoenissae, Thyestes, and Troades.Although many of the Senecan tragedies adapt the same Greek myths as tragedies by Sophocles, Aeschylus, and Euripides, scholars tend not to view Seneca's works as direct adaptations of the Attic works, as Seneca's approach to the myths differs significantly from the Greek poets and often contains themes familiar from his philosophical writings. It is possible that Seneca's tragic style was more directly influenced by Augustan literature.French neoclassical dramatic tradition, which reached its highest expression in the 17th-century tragedies of Pierre Corneille and Jean Racine, drew on Seneca for form and grandeur of style. These neoclassicists adopted Seneca's innovation of the confidant (usually a servant), his substitution of speech for action, and his moral hairsplitting.The Elizabethan dramatists found Seneca's themes of bloodthirsty revenge more congenial to English taste than they did his form. The first English tragedy, Gorboduc (1561), by Thomas Sackville and Thomas Norton, is a chain of slaughter and revenge written in direct imitation of Seneca. (As it happens, Gorboduc does follow the form as well as the subject matter of Senecan tragedy: but only a very few other English plays--e.g. The Misfortunes of Arthur--followed its lead in this.) Senecan influence is also evident in Thomas Kyd's The Spanish Tragedy, and in Shakespeare's Titus Andronicus and Hamlet. All three share a revenge theme, a corpse-strewn climax, and The Spanish Tragedy and Hamlet also have ghosts among the cast; all of these elements can be traced back to the Senecan model.