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Based on the legends used in Greek drama, Seneca's plays are notable for the exuberant ruthlessness with which disastrous events are foretold and then pursued to their tragic and often bloodthirsty ends. Thyestes depicts the menace of an ancestral curse hanging over two feuding brothers, while Phaedra portrays a woman tormented by fatal passion for her stepson. In The Trojan Women, the widowed Hecuba and Andromache await their fates at the hands of the conquering Greeks, and Oedipus follows the downfall of the royal House of Thebes. Octavia is a grim commentary on Nero's tyrannical rule and the execution of his wife, with Seneca himself appearing as an ineffective counsellor attempting to curb the atrocities of the emperor.For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700nbsptitles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust thenbspseries to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-datenbsptranslations by award-winning translators.
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Based on the legends used in Greek drama, Seneca's plays
are notable for the exuberant ruthlessness with which
disastrous events are foretold and then pursued to their tragic
and often bloodthirsty ends. Thyestes depicts the menace of
an ancestral curse hanging over two feuding brothers, while
Phaedra portrays a woman tormented by fatal passion for her
stepson. In The Trojan Women, the widowed Hecuba and
Andromache await their fates at the hands of the conquering
Greeks, and Oedipus follows the downfall of the royal House
of Thebes. Octavia is a grim commentary on Nero's tyrannical
rule and the execution of his wife, with Seneca himself
appearing as an ineffective counsellor attempting to curb the
atrocities of the emperor.For more than seventy years,
Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in
the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700nbsptitles,
Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best
works throughout history and across genres and disciplines.
Readers trust thenbspseries to provide authoritative texts
enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars
and contemporary authors, as well as up-todatenbsptranslations
by award-winning translators.
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