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

Kingery, Hugh Macmaster

9780332329598: The Medea of Seneca: With an Introduction and Notes (Classic Reprint)

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ISBN 10: 0332329593 ISBN 13: 9780332329598

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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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