''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.