Seneca: Phoenissae: Edited with Introduction, Translation, and Commentary - Hardcover
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Availability:In StockContributor:A. J. Boyle (Editor), A. J. Boyle (Translator)Publish date:11/27/2025Pages:496
Language:EnglishPublisher:Oxford University PressISBN-13:9780198889168ISBN-10:019888916XUPC:9780198889168Book Category:Literary Collections, Drama, Literary CriticismBook Subcategory:Ancient, Classical & Medieval, DramaSize:8.56 x 5.80 x 1.35 inchesWeight:1.6204Product ID:SCPQGQ2H6A
Seneca: Phoenissae: Edited with Introduction, Translation, and Commentary
Phoenissae is probably Seneca's final play, left unfinished at the time of his death in 65 CE from a suicide ordered by the emperor Nero. It is a work of great dramatic, poetic, and intellectual force, a paradigm of Rome's literature of civil war, packed with the latter's vocabulary and imagery and permeated by issues central to Senecan thinking and tragic practice. Prominent themes include: the...
Language:EnglishPublisher:Oxford University PressISBN-13:9780198889168ISBN-10:019888916XUPC:9780198889168Book Category:Literary Collections, Drama, Literary CriticismBook Subcategory:Ancient, Classical & Medieval, DramaSize:8.56 x 5.80 x 1.35 inchesWeight:1.6204Product ID:SCPQGQ2H6A
A. J. Boyle, Professor of Classics, University of Southern California 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...
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