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SELF-REPRESENTATION AND ILLUSION IN SENECAN TRAGEDY
by Littlewood, C. A. J
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- Hardcover
- Signed
- Condition
- Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket
- ISBN 10
- 0199267618
- ISBN 13
- 9780199267613
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About This Item
Oxford University Press. Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket. 2004. Hardcover. 0199267618 . Gift inscription from author to 'Michael' on ffep. Very light shelfwear to book. Dustjacket has minor shelfwear and rubbing. ; A. J. Littlewood approaches Seneca's tragedies as Neronian literature rather than as reworkings of Attic drama, and emphasizes their place in the Roman world and in the Latin literary corpus. The Greek tragic myths are for Seneca mediated by non-dramatic Augustan literature. In literary terms Phaedra's desire, Hippolytus' innocence, and Hercules' ambivalent heroism look back through allusion to Roman elegy, pastoral, and epic respectively. Ethically, the artificiality of Senecan tragedy, the consciousness that its own dramatic worlds, events, and people are literary constructs, responds to the contemporary Stoical dismissal of the public world as mere theatre. ; Oxford Classical Monographs; 344 pages; Signed by Author .
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- Bookseller
- Ancient World Books (CA)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 12033
- Title
- SELF-REPRESENTATION AND ILLUSION IN SENECAN TRAGEDY
- Author
- Littlewood, C. A. J
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket
- ISBN 10
- 0199267618
- ISBN 13
- 9780199267613
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press
- Place of Publication
- Cary, North Carolina, U.s.a.
- Date Published
- 2004
- Keywords
- 0199267618, Seneca, Tragedies, Latin Literature, Plays & Drama, Theater & Theatre, Classical Greek & Roman
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