Table of Contents

Preface
Introduction
1: Seneca and Rome
2: The Roman Theatre
3: The Declamatory Style
4: Seneca's Theatre of Violence
5: Seneca on Anger
6: The Myth before Seneca
7: The Play
8: The Reception of Seneca's Medea
9: Metre
10: The Translation
Text and Translation
Selective Critical Apparatus
Differences from the 1986 Oxford Classical Text
Commentary
Select Bibliography
Indexes
1: Latin Words
2: Passages from Other Plays of the Senecan Tragic Corpus
3: General Index

About the Author

Anthony James Boyle is Professor of Classics at the University of Southern California, Los Angeles. He has been editor of the Classical literary journal, Ramus, since its inception in 1972.

Reviews

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*David Braund, Bryn Mawr Classical Review*

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*Ilaria Ramell, LATOMUS*