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Two Tragedies of Seneca: Medea and The Daughters of Troy

Lucius Annaeus Seneca

Politics & EconomicsEnglish
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In Medea, the sorceress abandoned by Jason in Corinth takes a terrible revenge, in a version of the story harsher and more rhetorical than Euripides's; in…

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Author
Lucius Annaeus Seneca
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Politics & Economics
Language
English
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About this book

In Medea, the sorceress abandoned by Jason in Corinth takes a terrible revenge, in a version of the story harsher and more rhetorical than Euripides's; in The Daughters of Troy, Hecuba, Andromache and the captive women of fallen Troy await their fate while the Greeks sacrifice the princess Polyxena and Andromache's little son. Seneca's tragedies are full of violent passion, ghosts and long, brilliant speeches.

Context and significance

Seneca's plays, probably written to be recited rather than staged, were rediscovered in the Renaissance and strongly influenced Elizabethan tragedy, from Kyd's The Spanish Tragedy to Shakespeare. This verse translation is by Ella Isabel Harris. Compare Euripides's Medea and The Trojan Women.

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