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Seneca: The Tragedies: Volume 2 Paperback / softback - 1994
by Lucius Annaeus Seneca
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- Title Seneca: The Tragedies: Volume 2
- Author Lucius Annaeus Seneca
- Binding Paperback / softback
- Edition Ist Paperback Pr
- Condition New
- Pages 312
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore,
- Date 1994-12-01
- Features Bibliography, Index
- Bookseller's Inventory # A9780801849329
- ISBN 9780801849329 / 0801849322
- Weight 1.07 lbs (0.49 kg)
- Dimensions 8.98 x 5.89 x 0.89 in (22.81 x 14.96 x 2.26 cm)
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Themes
- Chronological Period: Ancient (To 499 A.D.)
- Cultural Region: Italy
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 91036347
- Dewey Decimal Code 882.01
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In 1543 Giambattista Giraldi Cinthio, the influential Italian playwright, critic, and writer of novelle (from whom Shakespeare borrowed the plots of Othello and Measure for Measure), judiciously summarized the Renaissance view of Seneca's dramas: "In almost all his tragedies he surpassed (in as far as I can judge) all the Greeks who ever wrote-in wisdom, in gravity, in decorum, in majesty, and in memorable aphorism."