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Trojan Women (Masters of Latin Literature)

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I had the pleasure of being professor Ahl's student for an entire year studying both Greek history and a great deal of ancient and modern tragedy under him including Trojan Women. Unlike other translators , Ahl makes painstaking efforts to capture not only the meaning of the original text but also the "feel" of the text which oftentimes includes a great deal of wordplay and many other subtleties that translators are unable or unwilling to capture. Given that, Trojan Women by Seneca, which is in some ways a "remake" of Euripides Trojan Women and in others a highly original masterpiece, is one of the best tragedies of all time and is recommended because of its timeless themes of life,death, war and the treatment of the conquered by the conquerors that it addresses. I highly recommend this play and all other translations by professor Ahl.