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Four Tragedies and Octavia

Thyestes, Phaedra, The Trojan women, Oedipus, with Octavia
Seneca - Author
E. F. Watling - Translator
E. F. Watling - Introduction by
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Book: Paperback | 5.07 x 7.79in | 320 pages | ISBN 9780140441741 | 30 Oct 1966 | Penguin Classic | 18 - AND UP
Four Tragedies and Octavia
Although their themes are borrowed from Greek drama, these exuberant and often macabre plays focus on action rather than moral concerns and are strikingly different in style from Seneca's prose writing. This collection includes Phaedra, Oedipus, Thyestes, and The Trojan Women. Seneca: Four Tragedies And Octavia Introduction
Acknowledgement

Thyestes
Phaedra (or Hippolytus)
The Trojan Women
Oedipus
Octavia

Appendix I. Elizabethan translations and imitations
Appendix II. Passages from Seneca's prose
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