"The language in these translations [is] as fresh and gleaming as blood just spilled."--Eleanor Wilner."Slavitt"s translation is... lively and sometimes witty."--TimesLiterary Supplement."A good, sensational Senecan read."--Queen"s Quarterly The volume includes Trojan Women, Thyestes, Phaedra, Medea, and Agamemnon, plus a preface.