Isbn: 9780674990876 - seneca ix: tragedies ii : agamemnon, thyestes, hercules, oetaeus, phoenissae, ocatavia (loeb classical library, band 78) (5 Ergebnisse)

Hardcover. Zustand: Good. No Jacket. Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. No Dust Jacket. Minor shelfwear. Scholar's name to ffep (D. Gerber).; Loeb Classical Library No. 78; 2; 542 pages; Seneca is a figure of first importance in both Roman politics and literature: a leading adviser to Nero who attempted to restrain the emperor's megalomania; a prolific moral philosopher; and the author of verse tragedies that strongly influenced Shakespeare and other Renaissance dramatists. Here is the first of a new two-volume edition of Seneca's tragedies, with a fully annotated translation facing the Latin text. Seneca's plays depict intense passions and interactions in an appropriately strong rhetoric. Their perspective is much bleaker than that of his prose writings. In this new translation John Fitch conveys the force of Seneca's dramatic language and the lyric quality of his choral odes.…

Hardcover. Zustand: Good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Includes dust jacket.

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Good ++. Publisher's original red cloth boards, gilt titles to spine. Clean and fresh copy. DJ is entire but with some wear.

Zustand: Good. Harvard University Press: London, 1987 / 1999. Cloth with gilt lettering and dustwrapper, v-vi. 541 / 569 pp. Lightly faded spine wrapper. Translation: Frank Justus Miller. Appendix, index. 17x11.5x5.5 cm. In very good condition. [Parcel service].