Topic : Phaedra
Phaedra is a notable literary work by Lucius Annaeus Seneca. A complete discussion of this literary work is given, which will help you enhance your literary skills and prepare for the exam. Read the Main texts, Key info, Summary, Themes, Characters, Literary devices, Quotations, Notes, and various study materials of Phaedra.
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SENECA, PHAEDRA
SENECA THE YOUNGER was a Latin playwright and philosopher who flourished in Rome
in the late C1st A.D. during the reigns of the emperors Claudius and Nero. His surviving
work includes ten tragedy plays, nine of which are based on mythological themes. His
authorship of Hercules Oetaeus and Octavia is uncertain.
Seneca. Tragedies . Translated by Miller, Frank Justus. Loeb Classical Library Volumes.
Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann Ltd. 1917.
The Miller translations of Seneca's tragedies are no longer in print having been replaced
in the Loeb [...]