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Littlewood, C. A. J.

SELF-REPRESENTATION AND ILLUSION IN SENECAN TRAGEDY Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket

Oxford University Press, 2004

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Year of publication
2004
Author
Littlewood, C. A. J.
Publishers
Oxford University Press
Keyword
Seneca Tragedies Latin Literature Plays & Drama Theater &, Theatre Classical Greek & Roman
Cover description
Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket
Binding description
Hardcover ISBN 0199267618

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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