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Thyestes is a first century AD fabula crepidata (Roman tragedy with Greek subject) of approximately 1112 lines of verse by Lucius Annaeus Seneca, which tells the story of Thyestes, who unwittingly ate his own children who were slaughtered and served at a banquet by his brother Atreus. [1]
Thyestes and Aerope, painting by Nosadella In Greek mythology , Thyestes (pronounced / θ aɪ ˈ ɛ s t iː z / , Greek : Θυέστης , [tʰyéstɛːs] ) was a king of Olympia . Thyestes and his brother, Atreus , were exiled by their father for having murdered their half-brother, Chrysippus , in their desire for the throne of Olympia.
Some suggest that certain scenes of the plays, such as the cannibalistic feast in Thyestes, may have been staged and performed while others were not. [6] Scholars believe that, unlike Greek tragedians such as Euripides or Sophocles who focused on the dramatic form of their plays, Seneca used his dramas to teach and spread the philosophy of ...
Lucius Seneca was a prominent playwright of the first century, famous for helping shape the genre of revenge tragedy with his ten plays: Hercules Furens, Troades, Phoenissae, Medea, Phaedra, Oedipus, Agamemnon, Thyestes, Hercules Oetaeus, and Octavia. [8] The importance of his plays lies in the difficulty of the period.
Most scholars argue that the revenge tragedies of William Shakespeare and his contemporaries stemmed from Roman tragedy, in particular, Seneca's Thyestes. [3] Seneca's tragedies followed three main themes: the inconsistency of fortune (), stories of crime and the evils of murder (Thyestes), and plays in which poverty, chastity and simplicity are celebrated ().
Seneca the Younger. Roman Stoic philosopher, statesman and dramatist (c. 4 BC–AD 65) Lucius Annaeus Seneca the Younger (/ ˈ s ɛ n ɪ k ə / SEN-ik-ə; c. 4 BC – AD 65), [1] usually known mononymously as Seneca, was a Stoic philosopher of Ancient Rome, a statesman, dramatist, and in one work, satirist, from the post-Augustan age of Latin literature.
Thyestes was the mythical king of Olympia. Thyestes may also refer to: Thyestes, a lost play of Euripides; Thyestes, a Roman tragedy; Mount Thyestes, in Canada; Thyestes, a genus of fossil fish; 14792 Thyestes, an asteroid
Pseudo-Seneca bust recovered from the Villa of the Papyri in Herculaneum MANN 5616. 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 of about two dozen examples depicting the same face.