Seneca's "Hercules Furens"

A Critical Text with Introduction and Commentary

By:

Seneca

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Paperback / softback

Series:

Cornell Studies in Classical Philology

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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. In his introduction, Fitch traces the conflicting classical portrayals of Hercules-a figure embodying altruism and aggrandizement, restraint and wildness-and argues that in the play, the untamed side of his nature ultimately turns against him and destroys him. In introductory notes to individual acts and choral odes, Fitch addresses the play's thematic development and discusses probably influences, including the Greek tragedies of the fifth century B.C., the tragedies of the Hellenistic and Roman Republican periods, and the writings of the Augustan poets, particularly Ovid. His line-by-line commentary focuses on such stylistic matters as wordplay, soundplay, meter, diction, and rhetoric, and he also looks closely at line divisions and at characteristic metrical patterns and anapestic odes. Fitch's assessment of the figure of Hercules in ancient literature, popular religion, and literary/moral tradition will be of compelling interest to classicists and students of later periods.

Author Biography:

John G. Fitch is Professor Emeritus of Greek and Roman Studies at the University of Victoria. John G. Fitch is Professor Emeritus of Greek and Roman Studies at the University of Victoria.

Release date NZ

September 18th, 2009

Author

Seneca

Audience

General (US: Trade)

Contributor

Commentaries by John G. Fitch

Pages

492

Series

Cornell Studies in Classical Philology

Dimensions

155x235x27

ISBN-13

9780801475719

Product ID

3479598

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