Self-Representation and Illusion in Senecan Tragedy

Erscheinungsjahr 2004
ISBN: 978-0-19-926761-3
Verlag: OUP Oxford

Buch, Englisch, 340 Seiten, Format (B × H): 145 mm x 222 mm, Gewicht: 611 g

Reihe: Oxford Classical Monographs

C. A. J. Littlewood approaches Seneca's tragedies as Neronian literature rather than as reworkings of Attic drama, and emphasizes their place in the Roman world and in the Latin literary corpus. The Greek tragic myths are for Seneca mediated by non-dramatic Augustan literature. In literary terms Phaedra's desire, Hippolytus' innocence, and Hercules' ambivalent heroism look back through allusion to Roman elegy, pastoral, and epic respectively. Ethically, the
artificiality of Senecan tragedy, the consciousness that its own dramatic worlds, events, and people are literary constructs, responds to the contemporary Stoical dismissal of the public world as mere theatre.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Littlewood, C. A. J.

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Geschichte der Westlichen Philosophie
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturwissenschaft: Dramen und Dramatiker
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturgeschichte und Literaturkritik

Über Autor(innen)

Cedric Littlewood is Assistant Professor of Greek and Roman Studies at the University of Victoria, Canada