Octavia.
Beautiful Letters| N° d'inventaire | 3447 |
| Format | 11 x 18 |
| Détails | 128 p., paperback. |
| Publication | Paris, 1998 |
| Etat | Nine |
| ISBN | 9782251799278 |
Classic bilingual collection. Octavia is an exceptional work: it is the only fully preserved example of an exclusively Roman genre, the "pretext" tragedy, whose subject is borrowed from national history and not from legend. Even if the manuscripts that have handed down the play to us attribute it to the philosopher Seneca, the identity of its author is unknown to us: he was a contemporary of Nero, close to the imperial court. At the same time as a powerful literary work, a tragedy intended for public recitation and reading, Octavia is an exceptional historical document on the Neronian period: this drama offers us a remarkable analysis of tyranny.
Classic bilingual collection. Octavia is an exceptional work: it is the only fully preserved example of an exclusively Roman genre, the "pretext" tragedy, whose subject is borrowed from national history and not from legend. Even if the manuscripts that have handed down the play to us attribute it to the philosopher Seneca, the identity of its author is unknown to us: he was a contemporary of Nero, close to the imperial court. At the same time as a powerful literary work, a tragedy intended for public recitation and reading, Octavia is an exceptional historical document on the Neronian period: this drama offers us a remarkable analysis of tyranny.