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"The language in these translations [is] as fresh and gleaming as blood just spilled."--Eleanor Wilner.
"Slavitt's translation is... lively and sometimes witty."--TimesLiterary Supplement.
"A good, sensational Senecan read."--Queen's Quarterly
The volume includes Trojan Women, Thyestes, Phaedra, Medea, and Agamemnon, plus a preface.
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Plays and translators: Octavia, Kelly Cherry * Hercules Oetaeus, Stephen Sandy * Oedipus, Rachel Hadas * The Phoenician Women, David Slavitt * Hercules Furens, Dana Gioia.
David R. Slavitt, poet, novelist, critic, and journalist, has published more than fifty books. His translations include the Metamorphoses of Ovid, The Fables of Avianus, the & quot;Eclogues& quot; and & quot;Georgics& quot; of Virgil, and Seneca: The Tragedies, Vols. 1 and 2, all available from Johns Hopkins.
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- PublisherThe Johns Hopkins University Press
- Publication date1992
- ISBN 10 0801843081
- ISBN 13 9780801843082
- BindingHardcover
- Edition number1
- Number of pages224
- EditorDavid R. Slavitt
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