Abstract

The text quoted above each note is that of the edition of Seneca's tragedies by Otto Zwierlein, OCT 1986; numerous passages are discussed in his Kritischer Kommentar zu den Tragüdien Senecas, Stuttgart, 1986; various textual suggestions were made in a correspondence with Zw. by B. Axelson. Other works on Seneca's tragedies, referred to by the scholar's name only, are: Text and translation: F. J. Miller, Loeb, 1917; L. Herrmann, Budé, 1924–6. Text with commentary: R. J. Tarrant, Agamemnon, and Thyestes ; J. G. Fitch, Hercules Furens. Text with commentary and translation: Elaine Fantham, Troades ; A. J.Boyle, Phaedra.