Seneca

— Hercules Furens — Troades (Trojan Women) — Phoenissae — Medea — Phaedra — Oedipus — Agamemnon — Thyestes — Hercules Oetaeus — Octavia —

General Resources

  • S. Bartsch and A. Schiesaro (eds.), The Cambridge Companion to Seneca (Cambridge, 2015) — esp. Chapter 2: C. Tinacty, “Senecan Tragedy” [Google Books preview] [review by Prost in BMCR]
  • A. J. Boyle (ed.), Tragic Seneca: An Essay in the Theatrical Tradition (London, 1997) [Google Books preview]
  • P. J. Davis, Shifting Song: The Chorus in Seneca’s Tragedies (Hildesheim, 1993) [review by Abrahamsen in BMCR]
  • T. G. Rosenmeyer, Senecan Drama and Stoic Cosmology (Berkeley, 1989)
  • A. L. Motto and J. R. Clark, Senecan Tragedy (Amsterdam, 1988)
  • D. and E. Henry, The Mask of Power: Seneca’s Tragedies and Imperial Rome (Chicago / Warminster, 1985)
  • N. T. Pratt, Seneca’s Drama (1983) [Google Books preview]
  • A. J. Boyle (ed.), Seneca Tragicus (1983)

English Translations

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Complete Works

[incl. collections without Octavia]

  • S. Bartsch (ed.), Seneca: The Complete Tragedies, 2 vols. (Chicago, 2017): vol. 1 [Medea (tr. S. Bartsch), Phoenician Women (tr. S. Braund), Phaedra (tr. S. Bartsch), Trojan Women (tr. A. Dressler), Octavia (tr. E. Fantham)] [Google Books preview]; vol. 2 [Oedipus (tr. S. Braund), Hercules Mad (tr. D. Konstan), Hercules on Oeta (tr. D. Konstan), Thyestes (tr. S. Bartsch), Agamemnon (tr. S. Braund)] [Google Books preview]
  • LCL (current): J. G. Fitch (ed., tr.), vol. 1 [Hercules, Trojan Women, Phoenician Women, Medea, Phaedra]; vol. 2 [Oedipus, Agamemnon, Thyestes, Hercules on Oeta, Octavia], LCL, rev. ed. (2018)
  • D. R. Slavitt (ed.), Seneca: The Tragedies : vol. 1 [Trojan Women / Troades, Thyestes, Phaedra, Medea, Agamemnon (all tr. D. R. Slavitt)] (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1992) [Google Books preview] [review by Levitan in BMCR]; vol. 2 [Oedipus (tr. R. Hadas), The Madness of Hercules / Hercules Furens (tr. D. Gioia), A Cloak for Hercules / Hercules Oetaeus (tr. S. Sandy), Octavia (tr. K. Cherry), The Phoenician Women (tr. D. R. Slavitt)] (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1995) [Google Books preview]
  • In G. E. Duckworth (ed.), The Complete Roman Drama: All the Extant Comedies of Plautus and Terence, and the Tragedies of Seneca, in a Variety of Translations, 2 vols. (New York, 1942)
  • LCL (old): F. J. Miller, LCL (1917) [html at theoi.com]
  • T. Newton, Seneca: His Tenne Tragedies [Hercules Furens, Thyestes, Troas (sic), tr. J. Heywood; Oedipus, tr. A. Nevile (1560); Hippolytus (i.e., Phaedra), Medea, Agamemnon, Hercules Oetaeus, tr. J. Studley; Octavia, tr. T. Nuce; Thebais (i.e., Phoenissae) tr. T. Newton] (1581) [archive.org]

Collections

  • E. Wilson, Seneca: Six Tragedies, Oxford World’s Classics [Phaedra, Oedipus, Medea, Trojan Women, Hercules Furens, Thyestes] (Oxford, 2010) [Google Books preview] [review by Trinacty in BMCR]
  • F. Ahl, Three Tragedies [Trojan Women, Medea, Phaedra] (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1986)
  • E. F. Watling, Four Tragedies and Octavia (Penguin, 1966 [?]) [Google Books preview]
  • J. Ker and J. Winston (eds.) Elizabethan Seneca: Three Tragedies [Jasper Heywood, Troas and Thyestes; John Studley, Agamemnon] (London, 2012) — cf. T. Newton above [Google Books preview]

Newer Scholarship

Performance

  • G. W. Harrison (ed.), Seneca in Performance (London, 2000)

Reception

  • E. Dodson-Robinson, Brill’s Companion to the Reception of Senecan Tragedy: Scholarly, Theatrical and Literary Receptions, Brill’s Companions to Classical Reception 5 (Leiden, 2016) [Google Books preview] [review by Paré-Rey in BMCR]
  • G. Braden, Renaissance Tragedy and the Senecan Tradition (Yale, 1985)