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

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Slavitt's ability is clearly in evidence...These translations are rendered in lucid, contemporary English, bringing before us the atrocities, horrors, and grotesqueries of Imperial Rome. --'Classical Outlook'

Slavitt's ability is clearly in evidence... These translations are rendered in lucid, contemporary English, bringing before us the atrocities, horrors, and grotesqueries of Imperial Rome. * Classical Outlook * Slavitt's translation is... lively and sometimes witty. * Times Literary Supplement * A good, sensational Senecan read. * Queen's Quarterly *

Slavitt's ability is clearly in evidence... These translations are rendered in lucid, contemporary English, bringing before us the atrocities, horrors, and grotesqueries of Imperial Rome. Classical Outlook Slavitt's translation is... lively and sometimes witty. Times Literary Supplement A good, sensational Senecan read. Queen's Quarterly

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David R. Slavitt, poet, novelist, critic, and journalist, has published more than fifty books. His translations include the Metamorphoses of Ovid, The Fables of Avianus, the ""Eclogues"" and ""Georgics"" of Virgil, and Seneca: The Tragedies, Vols. 1 and 2, all available from Johns Hopkins.

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