by Seneca the Younger · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788817166904
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«Medea; Fedra» is the volume of two tragedies by Seneca, published by Biblioteca universale Rizzoli in paperback (253 pages, in Italian).
Volume bringing together two tragedies by Seneca: «Medea» shows the protagonist devastated by unrequited love and driven by rage; «Fedra» pits a forbidden passion against reason and self-control. Both explore extreme figures and the abysses of the human soul, with unusual psychological depth.
First edition (1989) with facing Latin text, translation by Alfonso Traina and introduction and notes by Giuseppe Gilberto Biondi. Series «I Classici della BUR» and «Classici latini».
For readers of classical theatre and students of Latin literature who want an annotated edition with the original on the facing page.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca the Younger, usually known mononymously as Seneca, was a Stoic philosopher of Ancient Rome, a statesman, a dramatist, and in one work, a satirist, from the post-Augustan age of Latin literature.
