The Medea of Seneca: With an Introduction and Notes (Classic Reprint)

Hugh Macmaster Kingery

ISBN 10: 0282711864 / ISBN 13: 9780282711863

Editore: Forgotten Books, 2018

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• Titolo: The Medea of Seneca: With an Introduction and Notes (Classic Reprint)
• Editore: Forgotten Books
• Data di pubblicazione: 2018
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 0282711864
• ISBN 13: 9780282711863
• Rilegatura: PAP
• Condizione: New

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Excerpt from The Medea of Seneca: With an Introduction and Notes

This little book represents a venture into ne fields. In this country we have given much study, and rightly. To the Latin ('omedy, but have neglected almost entirelv its counterpart, the Tragedy. While classical scholars on the continent of Europe, and especially in Germany, have consid ered the Senecan plays worthy of careful recension, hardly anything has been done in Great Britain or America, and l have not been able to discover any edition of any of the tragedies with English notes. Numerous experiments in translation into English verse were made in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries (the most notable, perhaps. A col lection of The Tenne Tragedies in heroic and Alexan drine 'verse, published in London in but the text itself, with suitable helps, has never been rendered accessi ble to our students.

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