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    Phoenissae (Phoenician women) is a fabula crepidata (Roman tragedy with Greek subject) written by Lucius Annaeus Seneca; with only c. 664 lines of verse...
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    Lucius Annaeus Seneca the Younger (/ˈsɛnɪkə/ SEN-ik-ə; c. 4 BC – AD 65), usually known mononymously as Seneca, was a Stoic philosopher of Ancient Rome...
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    University Euripides, Phoenissae Sophocles, Oedipus Rex 1220–1226; Euripides, Phoenissae Sophocles, Oedipus Rex 1026–1030; Euripides, Phoenissae Sophocles, Oedipus...
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    century AD) Seneca, Hercules Furens 243 ff (trans. Miller) (Roman tragedy 1st century AD) Seneca, Medea 771 ff (trans. Miller) Seneca, Phoenissae 420 ff (trans...
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    violence that occurred. Only the Phoenissae departs from the five act structure. In the English literary canon, Seneca appears as a major influence on...
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  • genre of revenge tragedy with his ten plays: Hercules Furens, Troades, Phoenissae, Medea, Phaedra, Oedipus, Agamemnon, Thyestes, Hercules Oetaeus, and Octavia...
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    The Pseudo-Seneca is a Roman bronze bust of the late 1st century BC that was discovered in the Villa of the Papyri at Herculaneum in 1754, the finest example...
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  • responded to Seneca's Phoenissae. Two of his tragedies, Tragedy of Orestes and The Courageous Turk, contain speeches translated from Seneca's play. In The...
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  • both stichomythia and antilabe are common in Seneca. They occur in all the tragedies except Phoenissae." David Eggenberger notes that "[the device] was...
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    L078N) Volume IX, Tragedies II. Agamemnon. Thyestes. Hercules Oetaeus. Phoenissae. Octavia. L074) Theological Tractates. The Consolation of Philosophy L213)...
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