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Seneca: Oedipus (Hardcover)
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Seneca: Oedipus (Hardcover)
Series: Companions to Greek and Roman Tragedy
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Oedipus, king of Thebes, is one of the giant figures of ancient
mythology. Through the centuries, his story has inspired works of
epic poetry, lyric poetry, tragedy, opera, a gospel musical and
more. The myth has been famously deployed in psychology by Sigmund
Freud. It may not be too bold to claim that Oedipus is the name
from Greco-Roman mythology best known beyond the academy at the
present time, thanks to Freud's famous phrase 'the Oedipus
complex'. The most famous version of the Oedipus myth from
antiquity is the Greek play by Sophocles. But there is another
version, the Latin drama by the Roman philosopher and politician
Seneca. Seneca's version is an entirely different treatment from
that of Sophocles and reflects concerns special to the author and
his Roman audience in the first century AD. Moreover, the play
actually exercised a much greater influence on European literature
and thought than has usually been suspected. This book offers a
compact and incisive study of the multi-faceted Oedipus myth, of
Seneca as dramatist, of the distinctive characteristics of Seneca's
play and of the most important aspects of the reception of the play
in European drama and culture. The scope of the book ranges
chronologically from Homer's treatment of Oedipus myth in the
Odyssey down to a twenty-first century Senecan treatment by a
Lebanese Canadian dramatist. No knowledge of Latin or other foreign
languages is required.
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