{"product_id":"seneca-the-tragedies-9780801849329","title":"Seneca: The Tragedies","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePlays and translators: \u003ci\u003eOctavia, \u003c\/i\u003e Kelly Cherry * \u003ci\u003eHercules Oetaeus, \u003c\/i\u003e Stephen Sandy * \u003ci\u003eOedipus, \u003c\/i\u003e Rachel Hadas * \u003ci\u003eThe Phoenician Women, \u003c\/i\u003e David Slavitt * \u003ci\u003eHercules Furens, \u003c\/i\u003e Dana Gioia.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAre there no limits to human cruelty? Is there any divine justice? Do the gods even matter if they do not occupy themselves with rewarding virtue and punishing wickedness? Seneca's plays might be dismissed as bombastic and extravagant answers to such questions--if so much of human history were not \"Senecan\" in its absurdity, melodrama, and terror. Here is an honest artist confronting the irrationality and cruelty of his world--the Rome of Caligula, Claudius, and Nero--and his art reflects the stress of the encounter. The surprise, perhaps, is that Seneca's world is so like our own.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Lucius Annaeus Seneca,Seneca\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Johns Hopkins University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 12\/01\/1994\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSeries:\u003c\/b\u003e Seneca (Hardcover) #02\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 312\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.07lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.98h x 5.89w x 0.89d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780801849329\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eRevised Edition\u003c\/b\u003e","brand":"Johns Hopkins University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45229598310537,"sku":"9780801849329","price":31.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0636\/9240\/6921\/files\/img_a5528c0b-5afd-446a-913e-aa13b20b84f2.jpg?v=1770112098","url":"https:\/\/sonsanddaughtersbooks.com\/products\/seneca-the-tragedies-9780801849329","provider":"Sons and Daughters Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}