Excerpt from Medea: A Tragedy of Seneca Independently of the merit or demerit of these tragedies, the circumstance of theirfibemg the only complete specimens which ascertain, in what manner and with fications and success the Romans the tragic muse to their clime, may ctte some interest in them A co principal Greek tragic poets on the o and Seneca on the other, will, it is believed, convince every one, that there IS not so zbroadf and deep a chasm between them as 1s ly supposed all perfection on one failme on the other, but that there IS in the t three traglc poets of Greece a developement perceptible, succeeded by a, decline of which the best tragedies of Seneca are but a coutur uatlon, and by no means a' distant one. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.