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Hercules is a tragedy of great theatrical, poetic, and cultural value, addressing central issues of early imperial Rome, even as it speaks profoundly to our times. This edition offers a newly edited Latin text, English verse translation, and a detailed commentary setting the work in its theatrical and historical context.

Everything that's taught in seminary . . . all in one place!Moody Bible Institute's faculty authors combine pastoral wisdom, academic scholarship, and savvy street-smarts from the church's frontlines to provide a one-stop-shop for ministry training. One Volume Seminary contains sixty essays with practical advice for every aspect of church life--always grounded in God's Word--under six main headings: Doctrinal BasicsGeneral Ministry to the Loca...

This is a verse translation, with commentary, of Octavia, a work of exceptional historical and dramatic interest which deals with events at the court of Nero in the decisive year 62 CE.

Despite ancient Roman fascination with the tragic myth of Mycenae's 'king of kings', Seneca's Agamemnon is the only dramatic treatment from this tradition to have survived since antiquity. This new edition comprises an extensive introduction, Latin text, English verse translation, and detailed line-by-line commentary on the play.

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The first critical edition in English, with detailed commentary.

A full-scale critical edition with commentary of Seneca's Oedipus, the only surviving ancient Roman play on one of the most important and enduring myths of European intellectual history and a work of exceptional historical and dramatic interest. The verse translation is designed for both performance and serious study.

Seneca's Thyestes is the only literary or dramatic account of the Greek myth of Thyestes and his brother Atreus to have survived since antiquity. This new edition comprises an extensive introduction, Latin text, English verse translation, and detailed commentary.

A full-scale critical edition of Seneca's Medea which offers a substantial introduction, a new Latin text, an English verse translation, and a detailed commentary. Boyle locates the play firmly in its contemporary, historical, and theatrical context and in the ensuing literary and dramatic tradition.

Measures of Personality and Social Psychological Constructs assists researchers and practitioners by identifying and reviewing the best scales/measures for a variety of constructs. Each chapter discusses test validity, reliability, and utility. Authors have focused on the most often used and cited scales/measures, with a particular emphasis on those published in recent years. Each scale is identified and described, the sample on which it was d...

Phaedra, a disturbing drama of unnatural love, violence, and perverted loyalty, is one of eight surviving tragedies written by the millionaire philosopher and litt¿teur Lucius Annaeus Seneca (ca 1 B.C. - A.D. 65), chief minister to the Emperor Nero. A.J. Boyle's penetrating introduction and extensive notes show why Seneca so deeply influenced Renaissance drama: psychological insight, vivid and powerful verse, highly effective staging (although...

Seneca (ca 1 B.C.-A.D. 65) sets his Troades in the immediate aftermath of the fall of Troy. The Trojan women (the troades) were to become the prizes of the victorious Greeks. As the play opens, their husbands and sons dead, their city in ruins, they wait, lamenting, to be allotted to their new masters. But before the Greek warriors sail home with their spoils, further horrors are in store. Pyrrhus, son of Achilles, demands the sacrifice of the...

Volume 5 is a survey of every aspect of the civilisations which flourished in the Iranian region between the eleventh and thirteenth centuries.

This is the first book-length critical study of the three Virgilian works to be published in English for twenty years. It examines in detail the thematic design and intent of the Eclogues, Georgics and Aeneid, and documents the development of their political, moral and poetic pessimism. It presents the interrelationship of the three texts, their intertextuality, as integral to their meaning. The book is in three main parts - 'Pastoral Meditati...

In this 2002 book the state of English company law on minority shareholders' remedies is analysed following the UK Law Commission.