Seneca's Thyestes"Although the 'Thyestes' is widely acknowledged to be one of Seneca's most powerful tragedies, there has until now been no modern commentary on the play in any language. My principal aim has thus been to make this extraordinary work more widely accessible and so contribute to a greater appreciation of its quality. The 'Thyestes' seems to me an even better and richer play now that it did when I embarked on this commentary; I hope that the pleasure I have had in exploring it will be reflected in what I have written, and that my enthusiasm will offer some compensation for my failures of understanding." -- preface, p. [ix]. |
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Accius Aegisthus Aerope Agamemnon anapests Argos atque Atreus Atreus and Thyestes Augustan Augustan poetry avido caput Chorus Chorus's colometry crime decus deos domus dramatic echo Epist Fantham ferro fides Fortuna fratri Fury Fury's gravis Greek haec hinc implies ipse language Latin lines Livy manus mare Medea metonymy metus mihi Mycenae Myrtilus nefas Nero nihil nulla numquid Oenomaus OLD s.v. omne omnis Ovid F Ovid Met Ovid's parallel passage pater pectore Pelops perhaps phrase pietas play Plisthenes poetry Procne prologue quae quam quid quidquid quis quod recalls reference regna regnum Roman scelera scelus scene seems Seneca Senecan drama Senecan tragedy sense sententia sibi speech Stoic suggests tamen Tantalids Tantalus Thyestes tibi tion Tityos tota tragedy trimeter Troades turba unda Verg Vergil's vultus words Zwierlein