Seneca's "Hercules Furens"
A Critical Text with Introduction and Commentary
1st Edition
Published on 5. July 2018
492 pages
978-1-5017-1826-7 (ISBN)
Description
John G. Fitch's new Latin text of Seneca's play, Hercules Furens, is based on a collation of the chief manuscripts, including the Paris manuscript T.
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John G. Fitch is Professor Emeritus of Greek and Roman Studies at the University of Victoria.
John G. Fitch is Professor Emeritus of Greek and Roman Studies at the University of Victoria.
Content
- Cover
- Title
- Copyright
- Dedication
- CONTENTS
- Preface
- Abbreviations
- INTRODUCTION
- The Ambivalent Hero
- The Senecan Drama
- Conflicting views of Hercules
- Hercules 'sane'
- Hercules insane
- The dominion of death
- The final Act
- Summary
- Hercules Furens and Stoicism
- Seneca's Sources
- Date
- Text and Apparatus Criticus
- Sigla
- HERCULES FURENS
- COMMENTARY
- Act I
- Ode I
- Act II
- Ode II
- Act III
- Ode III
- Act IV
- Ode IV
- Act V
- APPENDIXES
- 1. Further Details of T (Par. Lat. 8031)
- 2. Addenda and Corrigenda to Giardina's Apparatus Criticus
- 3· The Colometry of the Anapestic Odes
- 4· Compound Adjectives and Adjectives in -x
- BIBLIOGRAPHY
- Addenda
- INDEXES
- 1. Index of Latin Words
- 2. General Index
