Agamemnon. Edited with a commentary by R.J. Tarrant. - Seneca
Agamemnon (Cambridge Classical Texts and Commentaries)
KORTE INHOUD
'This is the most extensive and elaborate edition of a Senecan tragedy known to me in any language, and it shout be said at once that it maintains the generally higs standard of the series to which it belongs. (...) T.'s stated aim is twofold: 'to discuss what Seneca wrote and what his words mean, and to place his work in a wider context'(p.VII) - the context here being earlier Greek and Latin drama, Augustan poetry, and declamatory rhetoric. (...) The most extensive and valuable part of the introduction is the 64-page section devoted to an account of the manuscript tradition. (...) After this careful homework on the manuscripts one expects and finds a sensible and readable text - 'readable' is not an otiose term here, for one of the most teasing problems in editing Seneca's tragedies is, quite simply, punctuating them (...) and this has been achieved here with general success. (...) The commentary is expansive and detailed, each episode and chorus having an introductory note before the line-by-line comments...
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Cambridge (...), 1976. VIII,409p. Original terracotta cloth with gilt titled vignette to spine. Lacking dust wrps. [Antiquarian] [Auteur: SENECA,] [Uitgever: Cambridge University Press] [Jaar: 1976] [Titel: Agamemnon. Edited with a commentary by R.J. Tarrant.]
