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.