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    Oedipus is a fabula crepidata (Roman tragic play with Greek subject) of c. 1061 lines of verse that was written by Lucius Annaeus Seneca at some time during...
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    the Oedipus myth might in fact derive from Euripides' play. Some echoes of the Euripidean Oedipus have been traced also in a scene of Seneca's Oedipus (see...
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  • play Oedipus (Seneca), a Latin-language tragedy by Seneca the Younger Oedipus (Dryden), an English-language tragedy by John Dryden Oedipus (Voltaire), a...
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    Oedipus Rex, also known by its Greek title, Oedipus Tyrannus (Ancient Greek: Οἰδίπους Τύραννος, pronounced [oidípuːs týrannos]), or Oedipus the King,...
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    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...
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    pantheons. When comparing Sophocles' Oedipus Rex to Seneca's Oedipus, both follow the story arc of Oedipus' journey, but Oedipus Rex — the original play – unravels...
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  • species formerly known as Oedipus rex Edipo re, an opera published posthumously as by Ruggero Leoncavallo Oedipus (Seneca) Oedipus rex (opera), an opera-oratorio...
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    Oedipus. Agamemnon. Thyestes. Hercules on Oeta. Octavia (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press: Loeb Classical Library: 2004) P. J. Davis, Seneca:...
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    in Phoenicia. Oedipus, son of Jocasta Antigone, daughter of Oedipus and Jocasta nuntius (messenger) Jocasta, mother and wife of Oedipus satelles (attendant)...
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    Library Statius. Thebais. Vol. XI. pp. 634–644. Seneca. Oedipus. pp. 1024–1041. Sophocles, The Oedipus Tyrannus of Sophocles edited with introduction and...
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    The heroic drama Oedipus: A Tragedy, is an adaption of Sophocles' Oedipus Rex, written by John Dryden and Nathaniel Lee. After being licensed in 1678 and...
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  • Aeschylus, Prometheus Bound 540; Sophocles, Oedipus Rex 1306; Euripides, The Trojan Women 183. Seneca the Younger, Oedipus 582 ff. Aeschylus, translated in two...
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    The Seneca Falls Convention was the first women's rights convention. It advertised itself as "a convention to discuss the social, civil, and religious...
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    ISBN 978-0-674-99602-1. Online version at Harvard University Press. Seneca, Tragedies, Volume II: Oedipus. Agamemnon. Thyestes. Hercules on Oeta. Octavia. Edited...
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    to Seneca, ed. Rolando Ferri (Cambridge Classical Texts and Commentaries No.41, Cambridge UP, 2003) [1] John G. Fitch Tragedies, Volume II: Oedipus. Agamemnon...
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    with Greek subject) of c. 1012 lines of verse written by Lucius Annaeus Seneca in the first century AD, which tells the story of Agamemnon, who was killed...
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  • Sophokles’ Oedipus, for example, "as Kreon seizes Antigone (832), they break into an excited lyrical strophe, full of antilabe in which Oedipus, Kreon, and...
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  • Philology (1996), with Hanna Roisman Two Faces of Oedipus: Sophocles' Oedipus Tyrannus and Seneca's Oedipus "The rider and the horse: poetry and politics...
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    appears in other contexts in the tragedies of Seneca, spoken by Hercules and by Oedipus, and in Seneca's Hercules Furens (Act II, Scene 1, line 276) the...
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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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  • tragedy. Besides Seneca's works, a single example of fabula praetexta (tragedy based on Roman subjects) survives. Troades (40–65) Oedipus (40–65) Agamemnon...
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  • Online version at Harvard University Press. Seneca, Hercules on Oeta in Tragedies, Volume II: Oedipus. Agamemnon. Thyestes. Hercules on Oeta. Octavia...
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  • universities in England began to produce the plays of Sophocles, Euripides, and Seneca the Younger (among others) in the Greek and Roman languages, as well as...
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  • is associated with the element of fire, and the direction east. In Oedipus by Seneca the Younger, the first singing of the chorus, which mainly describes...
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    Villain, Chatterbox, Saint (2007), and The Greatest Empire: A Life of Seneca (2014). Wilson was born in 1971 in Oxford, England. Her parents are Katherine...
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    King of Thebes, who was possibly the brother of Jocasta and uncle of Oedipus. If Creon is the same figure, Megara's mother is likely Creon's wife Eurydice...
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  • the 16th century. Earlier works, such as Jasper Heywood's translations of Seneca (1560s) and Thomas Norton and Thomas Sackville's play Gorbuduc (1561), are...
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    58.5 "Arestor", Wikipedia, 2022-12-27, retrieved 2023-05-07 Seneca the Younger, Oedipus 840 ff. Statius, Thebaid 7.253 Pausanias, 6.19.13 Homer, Iliad...
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    well as many fragments from other poets, and the later Roman tragedies of Seneca; through its singular articulations in the works of Shakespeare, Lope de...
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    not confined, as in the Œdipus Tyrannus, to the end of the play, when the fulfilment of the prophecy is borne in upon Œdipus; Phèdre realizes from the...
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