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Seneca: Hercules FurensCompanions to Greek and Roman Tragedy Hercules is the best known character from classical mythology. Seneca's play Hercules Furens presents the hero at a moment of triumph turned to tragedy. Hercules returns from his final labour, his journey to the Underworld, and then slaughters his family in an episode of madness. This play exerted great influence on Shakespeare and other Renaissance tragedians, and also inspired contemporary adaptations in film,

Encourages them to consider the differences between their own experience of ancient sources

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Epistolary fictions

Hogan provides a general introduction to Aeschylean theatre and drama

The first ever study of Classical Civilisation and

But this may be his one - and fatal - mistake

Against all the odds

For sixty years

he may have lived mostly in Rome but died at Patavium

and the power struggles which wracked it

Horatius at the bridge

The commentary explains as far as possible any obscurities in these fields and also deals with matters of linguistic interest