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Seneca · Frank Justus Miller
The ten tragedies attributed to Seneca — the only Latin tragedies to survive complete from antiquity. Blood-soaked, rhetorical, and Stoic in temper, they reshape Greek myth (Medea, Phaedra, Thyestes, the Trojan Women, Oedipus, the two Hercules plays) into dramas of passion, fate and endurance that shaped Renaissance tragedy from Kyd to Shakespeare. Verse translation by Frank Justus Miller (Loeb, 1917); public domain. Córdoba, Andalusia, Spain. In 4 BC Seneca the Younger was born in Cordoba in Hispania. He was the second son of Helvia and Lucius Annaeus Seneca, the wealthy rhetorician known as Seneca the Elder. Roman ruins in Cordoba — archaeological site of Cercadilla including the remains of one of Maximian’s palaces DRAMATIS PERSONAE ARGUMENT HERCULES FURENS HERCULES, son of Jupiter and Alcmena, but the reputed son of Amphitryon.JUNO, sister and wife of Jupiter, and queen of …
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