Spanish Seneca His Latin Tragedies and Greek Masters (A Philosophico-literary Compendium in Indian Perception with The Historical Backdrop) An Old and Rare Book

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The Compendium Veers around the multi-splendoured and enigmatic personality and career of LUCIUS ANNAEUS SENECA, the ill-fated stoic philosopher and 'Revenge' Tragedian of world- eminence, who had flourished in the twilight of the fleeting pre- Christian and Christian eras (04 B.C.-65 AD].

The author is quite plausibly the pioneer of Senecan studies in India in Indian perception, though, with comparative Indian philosophical perspective in view.

The Compendium is coincidentally the second millennial humble birth anniversary tribute of the author to the great stoic philosopher-cum-"Revenge" Tragedian, who himself was the confluence of different traditions and legacies, viz., Spanish, Roman, Greek and Latin, rarely found elsewhere in the world. An eminent advocate, a powerful orator, a Rhetoric teacher, an incisive writer as also Emperor, Nero's guardian-tutor, all combined together in himself, Seneca was, duly elevated, for his multi-faceted qualities, to the pinnacle of glory as a member o the Council of Ministers by Nero himself.

The Compendium dwells upon Pythagoreandism and Stoicism in some details as also the 'Revenge Tragedies of the Greek masters and Seneca's as well and also gives a politico- historical account of Seneca's meteoric rise and inglorious downfall, leading to his exile and suicidal death, consequent upon his deviation from stoic principles, on his Emperor-pupil, Nero's order, which could be likened with Aristotle's on the order of the Emperor-pupil, Alexander the great much earlier.

The volume also discusses, among various topics, the women's problems as also their very low status in a n.an- dominated Greco-Roman social frame, under the religious orders of the pre-olympian and Olympian eras.

As the pioneer of 'Revenge' Tragedies in English, through the works of Thomas Kyd and English-renderings of his 'Revenge' Tragedies, acted on English stage, Seneca has built a new bridge between England and Greece. The volume deals with Neo-Latin-cum-Italian 'Renaissance' and its impact on the much-later English 'Renaissance' and brings into light, quite anew, among many important topics, the Indian philosophical impact on Stoicism and Pythagoreanism and explains further how Indian philosophies had travelled far away in China and Japan and also to Western countries of Greece and Rome, since 12th century B.C.

Seneca is irrefutably a great 'Revenge' Tragedian, and a stoic philosopher, as the world could not leave him alone.

The author is an erudite scholar in Sanskrit, a first class M.A. and a Ph.D in Poetics, an ex-Principal, Burdwan Raj College (WB.), an ex-member of the State Education Service (W.B.E.S.), an ex- U.G.C. Extension Lecturer, Jadavpur University, Calcutta, ex-post- graduate Lecturer, Burdwan and Rabindra Bharati Universities, a Research guide, a University and College teacher for five decades, taught poetics, Inscription and Epigraphy among others, widely known for teaching eminence and multi-faceted studies, a persevere researcher in Ancient Indian History and Cultural Study, a lover of Grecian and Roman History, Aristotle and Western dramaturgy vis-a-vis Indian dramaturgy and its original exponent [or father], Bharata, Special interests in ancient Greek Revenge Tragedies and those of the Roman, Lucius Annaeus Seneca, a pioneer in Senecan studies in India, highly interested in study of sociology, especially in Indian contexts.