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This is a reproduction of a book published before 1923.This book may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part of the original artifact, or were introduced by the scanning process.We believe this work is culturally important, and despite the imperfections, have elected to bring it back into print as part of our continuing commitment to the preservation of printed works worldwide.We appreciate your understanding of the imperfections in the preservation process, and hope you enjoy this valuable book. ... Read more

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This scarce antiquarian book is a selection from Kessinger Publishing's Legacy Reprint Series. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment to protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature. Kessinger Publishing is the place to find hundreds of thousands of rare and hard-to-find books with something of interest for everyone! ... Read more

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Startling oedipus
It is many years since I read Sophocles' Oedipus.I found it then to be a most wonderful and exciting drama. more so than when I saw it on the stage.Reading this Ted Hughes' version of Seneca's Oedipus, I found the use of the english language to be overwhelmingly breathtaking, that the visual imagery conveyed by the words at times magnificently appropriately awful, and the story always gripping.Hughes used the words in relatively short phrases, like thoughts and fragments of thoughts but always with clear meaning.Recently performed in Melbourne, but unable to see it, I read a review of the performance, which prompted me to search for the book.It surpassed my expectations.A thoroughly good read.

And the book was in good fair condition, as described.

An Explosion of Absolutely Great Verse
This is Ted Hughes in top form. While I think "The October Salmon" from RIVER is his greatest single poem, his translations of Seneca's OEDIPUS and Racine's PHEDRE and Euripedes' ALCESTIS are not just among the great works of the past century, translated or otherwise, but are the very pinnacle of great verse and outstrip even his own poems. His translations of Lorca's BLOOD WEDDING and Wedekind's SPRING AWAKENING are not to be missed either. Seneca's OEDIPUS is available I believe only in softcover. This work, by the way, is less a translation than a gigantic explosion of blood and fate intermingled. These "translations" shrivel all competitors. ... Read more

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This is an EXACT reproduction of a book published before 1923. This IS NOT an OCR'd book with strange characters, introduced typographical errors, and jumbled words.This book may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part of the original artifact, or were introduced by the scanning process. We believe this work is culturally important, and despite the imperfections, have elected to bring it back into print as part of our continuing commitment to the preservation of printed works worldwide. We appreciate your understanding of the imperfections in the preservation process, and hope you enjoy this valuable book. ... Read more

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Detailed, Scholarly Resource for Seneca / Iroquois Folk Tales
I'm part Seneca, so I was thrilled to find this book.Like the other reviewer commented, it has somewhat formal language, so it might not appeal to someone casually looking for Native American folk tales.However, for someone specifically interested in Seneca folk tales, this is a detailed, scholarly book, with pictures, illustrations, a lengthy appendix and index.My favorite story is "Origin of the Chestnut Tree" featuring Dadjedondji, who remarks about obstacles on his journey:"All these things are strange.They are not right, neither are they according with the ways I know about, and, therefore, I can conquer all these obstacles."Words to live by!

Important, original work...
This is something of keynote work in traditional Seneca stories.The author -- Arthur C. Parker -- was a Seneca author from New York State who became a well-known ehtnologist, and contributed a great deal based on hisfirst-hand perspective of his own People.(He was the nephew of Ely S.Parker, Seneca Sachem and Union Aide to Ulysses S Grant).The language,indicative of scholarship of the time, can be somewhat stiff andformalized, but the Stories and their relevance are critically important. ... Read more

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This is an EXACT reproduction of a book published before 1923. This IS NOT an OCR'd book with strange characters, introduced typographical errors, and jumbled words.This book may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part of the original artifact, or were introduced by the scanning process. We believe this work is culturally important, and despite the imperfections, have elected to bring it back into print as part of our continuing commitment to the preservation of printed works worldwide. We appreciate your understanding of the imperfections in the preservation process, and hope you enjoy this valuable book. ... Read more

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In these lively renditions David Slavitt calls attention to the extraordinary work of the great Latin poet Seneca, and makes them appealing to modern readers. Seneca's honest artistry confronts the cruelty and irrationality of his world--the Rome of Caligula, Claudius and Nero. The surprise is that Seneca's world is so like our own. This volume includes five of Seneca's tragedies--"Trojan Women, Thyestes, Phaedra, Medea" and "Agamemnon". (Drama) ... Read more

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Superb...
I had the pleasure of being professor Ahl's student for an entire year studying both Greek history and a great deal of ancient and modern tragedy under him including Trojan Women. Unlike other translators , Ahl makes painstaking efforts to capture not only the meaning of the original text but also the "feel" of the text which oftentimes includes a great deal of wordplay and many other subtleties that translators are unable or unwilling to capture. Given that, Trojan Women by Seneca, which is in some ways a"remake" of Euripides Trojan Women and in others a highly original masterpiece, is one of the best tragedies of all time and is recommended because of its timeless themes of life,death, war and the treatment of the conquered by the conquerors that it addresses. I highly recommend this play and all other translations by professor Ahl. ... Read more

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This is an EXACT reproduction of a book published before 1923. This IS NOT an OCR'd book with strange characters, introduced typographical errors, and jumbled words.This book may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part of the original artifact, or were introduced by the scanning process. We believe this work is culturally important, and despite the imperfections, have elected to bring it back into print as part of our continuing commitment to the preservation of printed works worldwide. We appreciate your understanding of the imperfections in the preservation process, and hope you enjoy this valuable book. ... Read more

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This edition of the Medea is the first complete volume of any play by Seneca to include an introduction, Latin text, apparatus criticus, and commentary. ... Read more

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Medea is great!!
I first heard of Medea in our Latin II class when we covered Greek/Roman mythology. I was really intrigued by her then. This year, in Latin IV we translated a piece of Medea by the Roman author Seneca. I really enjoyed it. I bought Medea at the bookstore and loved it. There is a lot more psychological things going on than you get from the normal myth.

I reccomend this to anyone who likes classical mythology. ... Read more

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In the Hands of the Senecas by WALTER D. EDMONDS An Atlantic Monthly Press Book Little, Brown and Company Boston 1947 1937 BY THE CURTIS PUBLISHING COMPANY CC Y IGHT I947 BY WALTER D. EDMONDS ALL RIGHTS RESERVED, INCLUDING THE RIGHT TO REPRODUCE THIS BOOK OR PORTIONS THEREOF IN ANY POB. M ATLANTIC-UTTLE, BROWN BOOKS ARE PUBLISHED BY LITTLE, BROWN AND COMPANY IN ASSOCIATION WITH THE ATLANTIC MONTHLY PRESS PRINTED N THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA AMERICAN BOOK-STRATFORD PRESS. INC.. NEW YORK TO CHAPLES STETSON CONTENTS The Captives 3 Caty Breen 34 Delia Borst 69 Martha Dygart 103 Ellen Mitchel 133 Dygartsbush 172 IN THE HANDS OF THE SENEGAS THE CAPTIVES DYGARTSBUSH was the last settlement on the west of the Little Lakes District but there was not a spot in it from which two cabins could be seen at the same time. It was too new for that. Most of the people had come in just before 1776, and their cabins stood in isolated clearings connected only by footpaths to the narrow trr. ck that led northeastward twenty miles to Fort Plain. Altogether there were fifteen families. Though most of them were Scotch-Irish, they had arrived too late to come under the dominance of the Loyalist Johnsons and Butlers. There were also a few Palatine Germans from Schoharie, like Nicholas Dygart from whom the settlement took its name but most of them were young married couples, like John Borst and his wife, Delia. Westward the wilderness was unbroken Indian country except for the Edmeston Patent on the Unadilla. But the Edmeston people were kings people, and there was no intercourse between the two places. Dygartsbush was so hidden away that the first year of the war affected it al most not at all. A few of the young men joined the militia one of the Kelly toys was killed at Oriskany. The Kellys, however, were not the kind of people to be greatly missed in a community. They were perpetually skirting the edge of trouble, either running the woods like Indians with their wild dark faces, or drinking their father into a stupor, or making up to the younger women. ... Read more

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American historical fiction

Set during the American Revolution, in 1778, a small village in upstate New York is savagely raided by Seneca Indians. Most of the whites are killed, and a few are taken captive. The book then follows the fate of each captive, one by one. The prose is spare, elegant and masterfully paced. Highly recommended, unflinching, un-PC tale of American history. ... Read more

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As both a literary genre and a view of life, tragedy has from the very beginning spurred a dialogue between poetry and philosophy. Plato famously banned tragedians from his ideal community because he believed that their representations of vicious behavior could deform minds. Aristotle set out to answer Plato's objections, arguing that fiction offers a faithful image of the truth and that it promotes emotional health through the mechanism of catharsis. Aristotle's definition of tragedy actually had its greatest impact not on Greek tragedy itself but on later Latin literature, beginning with the tragedies of the Roman poet and Stoic philosopher Seneca (4 BC - AD 65). Scholarship over the last fifty years, however, has increasingly sought to identify in Seneca's prose writings a Platonic poetics which is antagonistic toward tragedy and which might therefore explain why Seneca's plays seem so often to present the failure of Stoicism. As Gregory Staley argues in this book, when Senecan tragedy fails to stage virtue we should see in this not the failure of Stoicism but a Stoic conception of tragedy as the right vehicle for imaging Seneca's familiar world of madmen and fools. Senecan tragedy enacts Aristotle's conception of the genre as a vivid image of the truth and treats tragedy as a natural venue in which to explore the human soul. Staley's reading of Seneca's plays draws on current scholarship about Stoicism as well as on the writings of Renaissance authors like Sir Philip Sidney, who borrowed from Seneca the word "idea" to designate what we would now label as a "theory" of tragedy. Seneca and the Idea of Tragedy will appeal broadly to students and scholars of classics, ancient philosophy, and English literature. ... Read more

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Seneca's Moral Epistles is an excellent introduction to Seneca's moral and practical philosophy for intermediate and advanced students of Latin. This redesigned reprint of the 1985 Scholar's Press edition is an attractive, affordable, and user-friendly edition.

Seneca's Moral Epistles offers an intriguing selection in Latin of 40 letters of Seneca on philosophical and practical topics ranging from the lofty ('On Integrating Knowledge' and 'God Within You') to the nitty-gritty -- debauchery at resort baths ('Baiae and Vice') and the woes of over-training ('Against Strenuous Physical Exercise'). These letters provide a fascinating glimpse into the daily life of Rome in the Empire and one man's contemplation of it.

This edition includes:
* Introduction on Seneca's live and work, philosophy, style
* Chronologies: historical and of Seneca's extant works
* Selected bibliography
* Latin text of 40 Senecan letters with facing-page notes
* Vocabulary

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Fantastic!(but not quite perfect...)
Seneca is a terrific read.Everything about his moral epistles--their style, their topics--evokes the chaotic, whirling, world-out-of-balance picture associated with the Roman Empire in the 1st century A.D.One hears in his voice the tension of a man earnestly trying to be a "healer of souls" while acknowledging that in maddening times, it's hard enough work maintaining the health of one's own.In short, his epistles are good reading for the modern student staring out on a world that seems to be spinning out of any one man or nation's control.Seneca probably would enjoy a greater readership in schools if it weren't for that taint of "Silver Age" attached to the literature of his generation.

He is not, after all, difficult to read.One quickly gets the hang of his style--his fondness for the pithy remark, unexpected reversal, or direct address to the reader; one learns to take the platitudes along with the more penetrating and insightful passages.For the Latin teacher (or independent yet highly-motivated student) who'd like to give Seneca a try in the classroom, Motto's edition is a congenial one.The selection of letters is numerous (40 or so) and wide-ranging.Chapter vocabularies, which include what I would call some elementary words, save the beginning or intermediate student time not having to flip to the glossary in the back.I find fault only with the commentary, which seems unusually sparse.In some places, it hardly numbers four or five lines.Teachers must therefore be prepared to explain a lot of grammar and syntax, not to mention content, to their students.But even with that shortcoming, I hope teachers and students alike will enjoy and treasure this edition. ... Read more

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This new collection of essays by well-known scholars of Seneca focuses on the multifaceted ways in which Seneca, as philosopher, politician, poet and Roman senator, engaged with the question of ethical selfhood. The contributors explore the main cruces of Senecan scholarship, such as whether Seneca's treatment of the self is original in its historical context; whether Seneca's Stoicism can be reconciled with the pull of rhetorical and literary self-expression; and how Seneca claims to teach psychic self-integration. Most importantly, the contributors debate to what degree, if at all, the absence of a technically articulated concept of selfhood should cause us to hesitate in seeking a distinctively Senecan self - one that stands out not only for the 'intensity of its relations to self', as Foucault famously put it, but also for the way in which those relations to self are couched. ... Read more

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Expensive but very good.
The articles that make up this selection are very good. Elizabeth Asmis' article about the concept of fortune in Seneca and David Wray's about Senecan tragedy are SO good. The articles from Bran Inwood and Christopher Gill are the only ones to have been published elsewhere before.

The only bad thing about this book is its price. I am very happy to have bought it, don't regret it whatsoever and I loved reading the book. I've read so much about Seneca already, and almost all of his works, but some articles in this book do bring some very fresh interpretations to scene.

Nonetheless, you might want to think twice before buying it, because it's expensive. Buying it or not should depend, I think, on how much this book might help you in your studies. That might or not make it worth it.
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Born in 4 b.c., Seneca lived during one of the most turbulent times in Roman history. He served as tutor and then adviser to the emperor Nero, witnessing firsthand many crimes and debaucheries. His experiences led him to turn away from public life and retreat into philosophical contemplation. A leading proponent of Stoicism, he has influenced writers and thinkers throughout the centuries.

Seneca's letters and essays are ideally suitable for intermediate- level Latin students. Written in a clear and crisp style, they are universal in scope and psychological in orientation. For this edition, M. D. Usher has arranged the selections by theme, length, and degree of difficulty. Usher also provides line-by-line notes on grammar, style, and content, and a vocabulary listing all Latin words found in the texts. ... Read more

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The Gourdification of Claudius the God has instant and lasting appeal. It is a uniquely surviving specimen of prose-and-verse satire from the Roman world - and satire, a Roman speciality, is one of the few types of ancient literature to survive, and thrive, in modern society. Its author, Seneca, was not only gifted with intellectual virtuosity, but, at the time of writing, was the precarious power behind the throne of the dangerously developing Nero. Claudius, the target of his malicious wit, remains the most controversial of the first twelve imperial Caesars. The English version facing the text makes the work available to the general reader who may not have any Latin. The text, which is based on a critical examination of all the manuscripts, will be indispensable to scholars. The commentary, which is the first on this scale to have been written in English, is primarily addressed to university and other students. ... Read more

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Excellent Text, Translation, and Commentary
Seneca's Apocolocyntosis is a quasi-funerary speech given by Seneca on the Saturnalia concerning the (deified) emperor Claudius.The speech is hilarious, mocking a justly deserving tyrant, and is totally worth reading (in Latin it's better than English).

Eden's volume has become the standard critical edition (w/ full apparatus) of Seneca's Apocolocyntosis.Unlike others of the Cambridge texts, this one also includes a full translation in Loeb style with Latin and English on facing pages.If I had a gripe, it's only that the edition is only available in softcover.That's a real shame.

Interesting
On the one hand, it is important to remember that Seneca wrote this book as a way of stroking the petty ego of Rome's newest emperor, Nero; thus his lampooning of Claudius and fawning admiration of his successor should be taken with a grain of salt. Nevertheless, it is a great Menippean satire - humorous, witty, well-composed, and imaginative. I only wish that the full text remained in our possession; some of it is missing, and I suspect that its absence does detract from the quality of the whole. Oh well. ... Read more

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This edition of Seneca's De otio and De brevitate vitae introduces undergraduates and more advanced students to Senecan philosophy. Both texts promote the benefits of living an inner existence insulated from everyday pressures. This edition emphasizes the relevance of the provocative Senecan message of a "balanced" life and his views on the complex relationship of the individual to society. ... Read more

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I have attempted in this book to provide something of an introduction to the poetical literature of the post-Augustan age. ... Read more