Roman Tragedy

Analyzing the work of every Roman tragedian whose work survived in substance, Anthony J. Boyle provides the first detailed cultural and theatrical history of Roman tragedy and its place at the centre of Rome's cultural and political life.

Author: Anthony J. Boyle
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 10/07/2005
Pages: 320
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.89lbs
Size: 8.16h x 6.42w x 0.70d
ISBN: 9780415251037

About the Author
A. J. Boyle is Professor of Classics at the University of Southern California, Los Angeles, and editor of the classical literary journal, Ramus. His previous publications include: The Eclogues of Virgil, Seneca Tragicus, The Chaonian Dove, Seneca's Phaedra, The Imperial Muse, Roman Epic, Seneca's Troades, Roman Literature and Ideology, Tragic Seneca, Ovid and the Monuments. He has also co-edited, with J. P. Sullivan, Roman Poets of the Early Empire and Martial in English, with R. D. Woodard, Ovid's Fasti, and with W. J. Dominik, Flavian Rome.