Phoenissae (Phoenician women) is a fabula crepidata (Roman tragedy with Greek subject) written by Lucius Annaeus Seneca; with only c. 664 lines of verse...
3 KB (295 words) - 09:39, 5 February 2023
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...
59 KB (6,812 words) - 21:01, 19 June 2024
University Euripides, Phoenissae Sophocles, Oedipus Rex 1220–1226; Euripides, Phoenissae Sophocles, Oedipus Rex 1026–1030; Euripides, Phoenissae Sophocles, Oedipus...
33 KB (4,617 words) - 04:59, 6 August 2024
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...
14 KB (1,638 words) - 09:52, 17 August 2024
Senecan tragedy (redirect from Tragedies of Seneca)
violence that occurred. Only the Phoenissae departs from the five act structure. In the English literary canon, Seneca appears as a major influence on...
18 KB (2,161 words) - 06:07, 15 August 2024
Revenge tragedy (section Lucius Seneca)
genre of revenge tragedy with his ten plays: Hercules Furens, Troades, Phoenissae, Medea, Phaedra, Oedipus, Agamemnon, Thyestes, Hercules Oetaeus, and Octavia...
13 KB (1,812 words) - 06:07, 15 August 2024
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...
10 KB (1,150 words) - 22:48, 6 July 2024
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...
10 KB (1,477 words) - 02:53, 9 August 2023
Antilabe (section In Seneca drama)
both stichomythia and antilabe are common in Seneca. They occur in all the tragedies except Phoenissae." David Eggenberger notes that "[the device] was...
4 KB (488 words) - 06:02, 4 July 2022
Loeb Classical Library (section Seneca the Younger)
L078N) Volume IX, Tragedies II. Agamemnon. Thyestes. Hercules Oetaeus. Phoenissae. Octavia. L074) Theological Tractates. The Consolation of Philosophy L213)...
75 KB (8,184 words) - 20:27, 15 August 2024