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Seneca: Phaedra and Other PlaysPenguin Classics Living in Rome under Caligula and later a tutor to Nero, Seneca witnessed the extremes of human behaviour. His shocking and bloodthirsty plays not only reflect a brutal period of history but also show how guilt, sorrow, anger and desire lead individuals to violence. The hero of Hercules Insane saves his own family from slaughter, only to commit further atrocities when he goes mad. The horrifying death of Astyanax is recounted in

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and Ernest Myers

Η Αριάδνη

Professor Kirk discusses fully the fragments which he finds genuine and treats in passing others that were generally accepted as genuine but here considered paraphrased or spurious

Its title alone signals its content

The introduction by Fred D

But Circe has neither the look nor the voice of divinity

Timon (the problems of being rich)

and the introduction

The full GCSE vocabulary is provided at the back of the book

This Penguin Classics edition is translated by Robert Fagles with introductions and notes by Bernard Knox

Sophocles and Euripides each in plays named Electra

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