01403nam a2200301 a 4500 EDZ0000075767 StDuBDS 20150804193950.0 m||||||||d|||||||| cr|||||||||||| 100211s2010 nyua fo 001 0 eng d 9780199866809 (ebook) : No price StDuBDS StDuBDS PA6685 872.01 22 Staley, Gregory Allan. Seneca and the idea of tragedy [electronic resource] / Gregory A. Staley. New York ; Oxford : Oxford University Press, c2010. 1 online resource (xiii, 185 p.) : ill. The question of why Seneca wrote tragedy has been debated since at least the 13th century. Since Seneca was a Stoic, critics assumed he wrote with the standard Stoic theory of literature as education in philosophy in mind. This book argues that Seneca was influenced by Aristotle's famous defense of tragedy against Plato's critique. Description based on print version record. Includes bibliographical references and index. Seneca, Lucius Annaeus, ca. 4 B.C.-65 A.D. Tragedies. Mythology, Classical, in literature. Tragedy. Print version 9780195387438 Oxford scholarship online http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/acprof:oso/9780195387438.001.0001 38722 38722