[PDF] Senecas Hercules Furens eBook

Author : Seneca
Publisher : Cornell University Press
Page : 492 pages
File Size : 13,98 MB
Release : 2018-07-05
Category : Drama
ISBN : 1501718266

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John G. Fitch's new Latin text of Seneca's play, Hercules Furens, is based on a collation of the chief manuscripts, including the Paris manuscript T.

Author : Neil Bernstein
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 169 pages
File Size : 26,53 MB
Release : 2017-02-09
Category : Drama
ISBN : 1474254934

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Hercules is the best-known character from classical mythology. Seneca's play Hercules Furens presents the hero at a moment of triumph turned to tragedy. Hercules returns from his final labor, his journey to the Underworld, and then slaughters his family in an episode of madness. This play exerted great influence on Shakespeare and other Renaissance tragedians, and also inspired contemporary adaptations in film, TV, and comics. Aimed at undergraduates and non-specialists, this companion introduces the play's action, historical context and literary tradition, critical reception, adaptation, and performance tradition.

Author : Margarethe Billerbeck
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 759 pages
File Size : 16,12 MB
Release : 2018-07-17
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9004351434

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This is most comprehensive study of Seneca's Hercules Furens to date and indeed of any Roman tragedy. Apart from illustrating the poetic language, the literary conventions and the dramatic technique of the play, the book highlights the figure of the Roman Hercules in relation to its Greek model, the Euripidean Herakles. The comprehensive introduction on myth, modern interpretations and textual transmission of the play is followed by a discussion of the newly discovered collation of the codex Etruscus by J.F. Gronovius. The detailed commentary is provided with a new critical edition and a new German translation. The work includes a full bibliography, an analytical index and a complete index of passages cited. Special attention is given to literary motifs and topoi as well as to Seneca's poetic language in its pivotal position between the Augustan poets and Neronian-Flavian epic.

Author : Lucius Annaeus Seneca
Publisher : Palala Press
Page : 114 pages
File Size : 29,30 MB
Release : 2016-05-17
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ISBN : 9781357026264

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