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Seneca's Phaedra - Michael Coffey, Roland Mayer (edd.): Seneca, Phaedra. (Cambridge Greek and Latin Classics.) Pp. x + 219. Cambridge University Press, 1990. £30 (Paper, £11.95). - Cesidio de Meo (ed.): Lucio Anneo Seneca, Phaedra. (Testi e Manuali per l'Insegnamento Universitario del Latino, 32.) Pp. 312. Bologna: Patron, 1990. Paper, L. 30,000.

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The Classical Review , Volume 41 , Issue 2 , October 1991 , pp. 330 - 332
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1 As in his Il Prologo della ‘Phaedra’ di Seneca (Bologna, 1978)Google Scholar.

2 He calls S. ‘a disconcertingly uneven writer who sometimes lapses into facile and hyperbolic rhetoric’ (p. 29).

3 Notably the rhythmically awkward quod interemi non, quod amisi fleo at 1122.

4 CR 1987, 22–4, review of Tarrant's Thyestes: ‘to one who studies the text closely much of S.'s writing is below par,’ ‘S. lets his mind slip into neutral many times,’ and 24–6, reviewing Boyle, Seneca Tragicus and Walker/Henry, The Mask of Power.

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