Seneca - Six tragedies /
Seneca's plays are the product of a sensational, frightening, and oppressive period of history. Tutor to the emperor Nero, Seneca lived through uncertain and violent times, and his dramas depict the extremes of human behaviour. Rape, suicide, child-killing, incestuous love, madness and mutilati...
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Language: | English Latin |
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[Oxford] :
Oxford University Press,
2016
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Series: | Oxford world's classics
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