Seneca: The Tragedies I

The volume includes Trojan Women, Thyestes, Phaedra, Medea, and Agamemnon, plus a preface.

"The language in these translations [is] as fresh and gleaming as blood just spilled."--Eleanor Wilner.

"Slavitt's translation is . . . lively and sometimes witty."--TimesLiterary Supplement.

"A good, sensational Senecan read."--Queen's Quarterly

'Powerful, clear, and vivid! These superb translations by David Slavitt bring these Seneca recital-dramas telling alive with immediate force." --Anthony Hecht