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Self-Representation and Illusion in Senecan Tragedy

By Littlewood, C. A. J.

Self-Representation and Illusion in Senecan Tragedy Philosophy

Self-Representation and Illusion in Senecan Tragedy

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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.
Product details
Edition:
1
Number of Pages:
340
Release Date:
2004-06-03
Publication Date:
2004-02-01
Publisher:
OUP Oxford
Languages:
Original: English
ISBN10:
0199267618
ISBN13:
9780199267613
GPSR Manufacturer Reference:
[email protected]
Weight:
611 g
Height:
145 cm
Width:
222 cm
Thickness:
24 cm
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