Trojan Women

by Seneca

Book Overview

Lucius Annaeus Seneca: Die Trojanerinnen Entstanden um 53 n. Chr. Der Text folgt der bersetzung von Wenzel Alois Swoboda. Vollst ndige Neuausgabe. Herausgegeben von Karl-Maria Guth. Berlin 2015.... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0801494311
• ISBN13: 9780801494314
• Release Date: November 1986
• Publisher: Cornell University Press
• Length: 128 Pages
• Weight: 0.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 6.0" x 9.0"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher

Customer Reviews

Superb...

I had the pleasure of being professor Ahl's student for an entire year studying both Greek history and a great deal of ancient and modern tragedy under him including Trojan Women. Unlike other translators , Ahl makes painstaking efforts to capture not only the meaning of the original text but also the "feel" of the text which oftentimes includes a great deal of wordplay and many other subtleties that translators are unable or unwilling to capture. Given that, Trojan Women by Seneca, which is in some ways a "remake" of Euripides Trojan Women and in others a highly original masterpiece, is one of the best tragedies of all time and is recommended because of its timeless themes of life,death, war and the treatment of the conquered by the conquerors that it addresses. I highly recommend this play and all other translations by professor Ahl.