Hope the Deceiver
Pseudo-Seneca De Spe
Classics
Michael S Armstrong (Edited by)
Olms 1998
Paperback 242 pages  
3487107600 | 9783487107608 |  Product code: 85687  
The 66-line elegiac poem On Hope is the longest portrayal in extant classical Latin literature of Hope as a deceiver of mortals who holds sway over a world of absurdity. Armstrong's volume provides a newly edited text of this neglected poem, with critical apparatus, running translation and extensive line-by-line commentary. The prolegomena cover the dubious attribution to Seneca, the worship of Hope at Rome and the poem's Augustan literary and rhetorical models. Facsimile reprint. No jacket.
 
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