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Pseudo-Seneca: Hercules on Oeta.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Harrison, George W. M., author.
- Series:
- Companions to Greek and Roman Tragedy.
- Companions to Greek and Roman Tragedy
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Seneca, Lucius Annaeus, approximately 4 B.C.-65 A.D. Hercules Oetaeus,.
- Seneca, Lucius Annaeus.
- Latin drama (Tragedy)--History and criticism.
- Latin drama (Tragedy).
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (178 pages)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Distribution:
- London : Bloomsbury Publishing (UK), 2025.
- Place of Publication:
- London : Bloomsbury Academic, 2025.
- System Details:
- text file rdaft
- Summary:
- An accessible introduction to the Roman tragedy Hercules on Oeta with chapters on its contexts, key themes and reception.
- Contents:
- Cover
- Halftitle page
- Series page
- Title page
- Copyright page
- Epigraph
- Contents
- Acknowledgements
- Note on Text, Translation and Transliteration
- Abbreviations
- Introduction
- Two inescapable facts
- Republican Hercules
- Imperial Hercules
- Alcides vs Hercules
- heroic chronology
- Author
- Date
- Plan of this book
- 1 Meet Hercules on Oeta
- Synopsis
- Performance
- 2 Greek Antecedents
- Epic threads
- Tragedy
- Other drama genres
- 3 Latin Antecedents
- Hercules in Vergil, Aeneid
- Hercules in Ovid
- Hercules in Seneca
- Anonymous, Octavia
- 4 Contemporary Contexts
- Singularities
- Shared traditions
- Common threads not in Hercules on Oeta
- 5 Meter, Characters, Style
- Meter
- Characters
- Style
- 6 Themes
- Themes dominant in the play
- Themes traditionally associated with Stoicism
- 7 Hercules on Oeta After Antiquity
- Elizabeth I and Chapman
- Heinsius (Heins) and Lessing
- No Time to Die
- James Bond, 2021
- The future of the death of Hercules
- Appendix Comparison of Hercules on Oeta and Sophocles, Women of Trachis
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index.
- ISBN:
- 1-350-20566-4
- 1-350-20568-0
- 1-350-20567-2
- 9781350205673
- OCLC:
- 1546970859
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