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There's a new translation of a play by someone named Seneca out called The Madness of Hercules. And the translator of the play is our own Dana Joya. First Things is claiming

Dana Joya as one of the part of the group with a long introduction included as well.

And so Dana is here again, as he was a few weeks ago, to discuss his new volume of poetry,

this time the play and Seneca and the history of tragedy in general.

We can get into that.

Before I welcome him, let me mention that new volume

of poems once again called Meet Me at the Lighthouse. Just out. Anyway, welcome again, Dana. It's good

to be back. And I should probably explain that my Seneca book is a sort of centaur. It's one half book about Seneca

and one half poetic translation of one of his great tragedies. The, the, the open, that,

that introduction, actually, I read, I read through through it very closely. Yeah, it's much more than an

introduction. It's really a full essay on who Seneca was in the history of Seneca, in actually

the history of literary criticism and performance as well. But for our listeners, one of you

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