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Seneca Oedipus
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Author : Susanna Braund
language : en
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Release Date : 2015-12-17
Seneca Oedipus written by Susanna Braund and has been published by Bloomsbury Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-12-17 with Literary Criticism categories.
Oedipus, king of Thebes, is one of the giant figures of ancient mythology. Through the centuries, his story has inspired works of epic poetry, lyric poetry, tragedy, opera, a gospel musical and more. The myth has been famously deployed in psychology by Sigmund Freud. It may not be too bold to claim that Oedipus is the name from Greco-Roman mythology best known beyond the academy at the present time, thanks to Freud's famous phrase 'the Oedipus complex'. The most famous version of the Oedipus myth from antiquity is the Greek play by Sophocles. But there is another version, the Latin drama by the Roman philosopher and politician Seneca. Seneca's version is an entirely different treatment from that of Sophocles and reflects concerns special to the author and his Roman audience in the first century AD. Moreover, the play actually exercised a much greater influence on European literature and thought than has usually been suspected. This book offers a compact and incisive study of the multi-faceted Oedipus myth, of Seneca as dramatist, of the distinctive characteristics of Seneca's play and of the most important aspects of the reception of the play in European drama and culture. The scope of the book ranges chronologically from Homer's treatment of Oedipus myth in the Odyssey down to a twenty-first century Senecan treatment by a Lebanese Canadian dramatist. No knowledge of Latin or other foreign languages is required.
Two Faces Of Oedipus
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Author : Frederick Ahl
language : en
Publisher: Cornell University Press
Release Date : 2008
Two Faces Of Oedipus written by Frederick Ahl and has been published by Cornell University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2008 with Drama categories.
Sophocles' Oedipus Tyrannus is the most famous of ancient tragedies and a literary masterpiece. It is not, however, the only classical dramatization of Oedipus' quest to discover his identity. Between four and five hundred years after Sophocles' play was first performed, Seneca composed a fine, but neglected and often disparaged Latin tragedy on the same subject, which, in some ways, comes closer to our common understanding of the Oedipus myth. Now, modern readers can compare the two versions, in new translations by Frederick Ahl.Balancing poetry and clarity, yet staying scrupulously close to the original texts, Ahl's English versions are designed to be both read and performed, and are alert to the literary and historical complexities of each. In approaching Sophocles anew, Ahl is careful to preserve the richly allusive nature and rhetorical power of the Greek, including the intricate use of language that gives the original its brilliant force. For Ahl, Seneca's tragedy is vastly and intriguingly different from that of Sophocles, and a poetic masterpiece in its own right. Seneca takes us inside the mind of Oedipus in ways that Sophocles does not, making his inner conflicts a major part of the drama itself in his soliloquies and asides. Two Faces of Oedipus opens with a wide-ranging introduction that examines the conflicting traditions of Oedipus in Greek literature, the different theatrical worlds of Sophocles and Seneca, and how cultural and political differences between Athenian democracy and Roman imperial rule affect the nature and conditions under which the two tragedies were composed. This book brings two dramatic traditions into conversation while providing elegant, accurate, and exciting new versions of Sophocles' and Seneca's tragedies.
Seneca S Oedipus
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Author : Ted Hughes
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1975
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Seneca S Oedipus
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Author : Lucius Annaeus Seneca
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1955
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Seneca S Oedipus
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Author : Ted Hughes
language : en
Publisher: Doubleday Books
Release Date : 1972
Seneca S Oedipus written by Ted Hughes and has been published by Doubleday Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1972 with Latin drama (Tragedy) categories.
Seneca Oedipus
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Author : A. J. Boyle
language : en
Publisher: OUP Oxford
Release Date : 2010-12-23
Seneca Oedipus written by A. J. Boyle and has been published by OUP Oxford this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010-12-23 with Literary Criticism categories.
A full-scale critical edition with commentary of Seneca's Oedipus, the only surviving ancient Roman play on one of the most important and enduring myths of European intellectual history and a work of exceptional historical and dramatic interest. The verse translation is designed for both performance and serious study.
Seneca S Oedipus
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Author : Lucio Anneo Séneca
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1983
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Seneca
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Author : Susanna Morton Braund
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2015
Seneca written by Susanna Morton Braund and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015 with categories.
"Oedipus, king of Thebes, is one of the giant figures of ancient mythology. Through the centuries, his story has inspired works of epic poetry, lyric poetry, tragedy, opera, a gospel musical and more. The myth has been famously deployed in psychology by Sigmund Freud. It may not be too bold to claim that Oedipus is the name from Greco-Roman mythology best known beyond the academy at the present time, thanks to Freud's famous phrase 'the Oedipus complex'. The most famous version of the Oedipus myth from antiquity is the Greek play by Sophocles. But there is another version, the Latin drama by the Roman philosopher and politician Seneca. Seneca's version is an entirely different treatment from that of Sophocles and reflects concerns special to the author and his Roman audience in the first century AD. Moreover, the play actually exercised a much greater influence on European literature and thought than has usually been suspected. This book offers a compact and incisive study of the multi-faceted Oedipus myth, of Seneca as dramatist, of the distinctive characteristics of Seneca's play and of the most important aspects of the reception of the play in European drama and culture. The scope of the book ranges chronologically from Homer's treatment of Oedipus myth in the Odyssey down to a twenty-first century Senecan treatment by a Lebanese Canadian dramatist. No knowledge of Latin or other foreign languages is required"--
Oedipus
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Author : Lucius Annaeus Seneca
language : en
Publisher: MacMillan Publishing Company
Release Date : 1955
Oedipus written by Lucius Annaeus Seneca and has been published by MacMillan Publishing Company this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1955 with Drama categories.
Seneca
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Author : Lucius Annaeus Seneca
language : en
Publisher: JHU Press
Release Date : 1992
Seneca written by Lucius Annaeus Seneca and has been published by JHU Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1992 with Drama categories.
Plays and translators: Octavia, Kelly Cherry * Hercules Oetaeus, Stephen Sandy * Oedipus, Rachel Hadas * The Phoenician Women, David Slavitt * Hercules Furens, Dana Gioia. Are there no limits to human cruelty? Is there any divine justice? Do the gods even matter if they do not occupy themselves with rewarding virtue and punishing wickedness? Seneca's plays might be dismissed as bombastic and extravagant answers to such questions—if so much of human history were not "Senecan" in its absurdity, melodrama, and terror. Here is an honest artist confronting the irrationality and cruelty of his world—the Rome of Caligula, Claudius, and Nero—and his art reflects the stress of the encounter. The surprise, perhaps, is that Seneca's world is so like our own.