Four Tragedies and Octavia (Penguin Classics)

Features

• Cover Type: Paperback with 320 pages
• Published by: Penguin Classics; New Impression edition October 30, 1966
• Written in: English
• ISBN 10 Number: 0140441743
• ISBN 13 Number: 978-0140441741
• Book Dimensions: 7.6 x 5 x 0.7 inches
• Weighs: 7.8 ounces

Language Notes
Text: English (translation)

Reader Reviews
And forget what you know about Seneca the Stoic. In his tragedies, the younger Seneca gives full reign to what Nietzsche later (and perhaps unrelatedly) recognized as the Dionysian: lust, anger, revenge, and unadulerated humanity in its most elemental. Although some apprecition of classical mythology is needed to enter these texts fully, once you're in them, you look around, and find yourself in a house of horrors or else in the deepest region of the unconscious. Read _Thyestes_, and you'll have the underpinning for horror and suspense from Poe to Jim Thompson to the _Blair Witch Project_. You could take my word for it, or you could listen to Seneca's admirers and imitators: Webster, Jonson, Shakespeare... Comment | | (Report this)