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    Phaedra is a Roman tragedy written by philosopher and dramatist Lucius Annaeus Seneca before 54 A.D. Its 1,280 lines of verse tell the story of Phaedra...
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    then she killed herself. The story of Phaedra is told in Euripides' play Hippolytus, Seneca the Younger's Phaedra, and Ovid's Heroides. It has inspired...
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    tragedian, he is best known for plays such as his Medea, Thyestes, and Phaedra. Seneca had an immense influence on later generations—during the Renaissance...
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  • Rameau Phaedra (CD label), an independent classical CD-label, publishing Belgian and especially Flemish music Phaedra (Seneca), a play by Seneca the Younger...
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  • Hippolytus (play), a tragedy by Euripides Phaedra (Seneca), sometimes known as Hippolytus, play by Seneca the Younger A character in Jean Racine's play...
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  • Theatre, directed by the author. The play is a modern adaptation of Seneca's Phaedra. The play explores the brutal nature of love, social relations, nihilism...
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    Aphrodite. In a version recounted by the Roman playwright Seneca, entitled Phaedra, after Phaedra told Theseus that Hippolytus had raped her, Theseus called...
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    Phèdre (redirect from Phaedra (Racine))
    Greek and Roman tragic poets, notably by Euripides in Hippolytus and Seneca in Phaedra. As a result of an intrigue by the Duchess of Bouillon and other friends...
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  • Planchon 1995–96 The Visit Friedrich Dürrenmatt Régis Santon 1996–97 Phaedra Seneca Jean Lacornerie 1997 14 février Saint Valentin Sandra J. Albert Régis...
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    Seneca, Agamemnon 848 ff (trans. Miller) (Roman tragedy C1st AD) Seneca, Hercules Furens 245 ff (trans. Miller) Seneca, Hercules Furens 542 ff Seneca...
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    bloodshed of the play. Productions of Seneca's work continued to appear into the 1980s. Stagings of Troades, Medea, and Phaedra, for instance, were published...
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    Sonnenschein & Co. Seneca (2011). Phaedra and Other Plays. Translated by Smith, R. Scott. Penguin UK. ISBN 978-0141970943. Elaine Fantham, Seneca’s Troades: A...
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  • Agamemnon (40–65) Medea (50) Phaedra (52) Thyestes (52) Hercules (54) Phoenissae (60–62) Hercules Oetaeus (65–100) (attributed to Seneca, true author unknown)...
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  • published online: 2006. Seneca, Hercules in Seneca, Tragedies, Volume I: Hercules. Trojan Women. Phoenician Women. Medea. Phaedra. Edited and translated...
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    crepidata (Roman tragedy with Greek subject) written by Lucius Annaeus Seneca; with only c. 664 lines of verse it is his shortest play. It is an incomplete...
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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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    Phoenician Women. Medea. Phaedra (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press: Loeb Classical Library: 2002) Boyle, A.J., ed. (2023). Seneca: Hercules. New York:...
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  • Hippolyte, tragédie tournée de Sénèque (category Phaedra (mythology))
    tournée de Sénèque is a French translation of the Latin play of Seneca, called Phaedra. Its Belgian translator, Jean Yeuwain, takes some liberties with...
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    Hippolytus of Athens (category Phaedra (mythology))
    preserving the story of Phaedra and Hippolytus in a ritual song. Versions of this story also appear in Seneca the Younger's play Phaedra, Ovid's Metamorphoses...
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    Cynegetica, 107. Oppian, Cynegetica, I. 375. Plautus, Captivi, 86. Seneca, Phaedra, 33. Statius, Achilleid, I. 747. Statius, Silvae, II. VI. 19. Statius...
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    Argonautica 3.999 Ovid, Metamorphoses 9.735 Antoninus Liberalis, 41 Seneca, Phaedra 112 Hesiod, Theogony 355 Apollodorus, 1.9.1 Hyginus, Fabulae Preface...
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    1992. ISBN 978-0-521-32718-3. Seneca, Tragedies, Volume I: Hercules. Trojan Women. Phoenician Women. Medea. Phaedra. Edited and translated by John G...
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  • specialist in Latin literature and Roman culture. Mayer, Roland (2002). Seneca : Phaedra. London: Duckworth. ISBN 0-7156-3165-9. OCLC 54041487. "Professor Roland...
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    "comedy of manners". Seneca, 1st century dramatist most famous for Roman adaptations of ancient Greek plays (e.g. Medea and Phaedra.) Ennius, contemporary...
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  • tragedy with his ten plays: Hercules Furens, Troades, Phoenissae, Medea, Phaedra, Oedipus, Agamemnon, Thyestes, Hercules Oetaeus, and Octavia. The importance...
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  • Seneca (2000) Λαμπροὺϛ Δυνάσταϛ: Aeschylus, Astronomy and the Agamemnon The Classical Journal, Vol. 98, No. 4 (Apr. - May, 2003), pp. 397-410 Phaedra...
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  • play inspired by a classic text. Phaedra's Love was loosely based on the classical dramatist Seneca's play Phaedra, but given a contemporary setting...
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    performed at the Jesuit Collegio Romano in 1597. Closely modelled on Seneca's Phaedra, this became a model of Jesuit tragedy and one of the main bases for...
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    Greek–English Lexicon s.v. εὔκομος. For a horned Selene see for example: Seneca, Medea 98, Phaedra 419; Valerius Flaccus, Argonautica 8.29; Quintus Smyrnaeus, The...
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    philosopher Seneca. Nine of Seneca's tragedies survive, all of which are fabula crepidata (tragedies adapted from Greek originals); his Phaedra, for example...
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