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<p>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.</p> <p>This volume contains the following works: Oedipus, The Madness of Hercules, A Cloak for Hercules, Octavia, and The Phoenician Women </p>

Author

and translated by David R. Slavitt

Publisher

JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY PRESS: BALTIMORE, MD

Published

1992

Language

EN

ISBN

9780801849329

Subjects

Literary Fiction, Humanities

Rating

3.76 / 5 (1 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14