Revenge in Seneca's Tragedies : Anger, Philosophy, and the Feminine.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Nelis, Basil L. P.

Series:

Oxford Classical Monographs

Language:

English

Physical Description:

1 online resource (0 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Oxford : Oxford University Press, Incorporated, 2026.

Summary:

A comprehensive investigation of revenge in Senecan tragedy that argues that it is primarily through the revenge of female characters that Seneca interrogates the boundary between proportionate and excessive revenge and explores the problems inherent in like-for-like violence.

Contents:

Cover

Revenge in Seneca's Tragedies : Anger, Philosophy, and the Feminine

Copyright

Dedication

Contents

Acknowledgements

Abbreviations

1: Introduction

1.1 Tragedy and revenge

1.2 Revenge in Roman culture

1.3 Women's revenge and the 'senecan aesthetic'

Part I: Revenge in Senecan Tragedy An Analytical Survey

2: Agamemnon

2.1 The character of Clytemnestra

2.2 Eurybates' narrative of the storm

2.3 Cassandra

2.4 Minor character: Electra

3: Phaedra

3.1 Vengeful Venus

3.2 Phaedra and Medea: monstrous stepmothers

4: Medea

4.1 Medea and maius

4.2 The problematic principle of decorum : symmetry and excess

4.3 Medea versus the chorus

4.4 The fulfilment of Medea's revenge

4.5 Medea as the virgin goddess Justice

5: Troades

5.1 Hecuba's aggressive lamentation ( Tro . 1-163)

5.2 Hecuba's prayer/curse ( Tro . 981-1008)

5.3 Minor character: Polyxena

6: Hercules furens

6.1 The prologue: structure and summary

6.2 Juno's dubious logic

6.3 Minor character: Megara

7: Thyestes

7.1 Atreus, Procne, and Philomela

7.2 Revenge and dynastic succession

7.3 An Aeschylean Fury?

Part II: Towards a unified understanding of revenge in Seneca

8: Medea's revenge and Seneca's Stoicism

8.1 Seneca's tragedies and Seneca's philosophy

8.2 Seneca's philosophical views on women, anger, and revenge

8.3 The differences between the Aristotelian and the Stoic definitions of anger

8.4 Seneca's theory of the three motus of passion

8.5 Medea at Rome

8.6 The Stoic reception of Euripides' Medea

8.7 Elements of Stoic influence in Seneca's Medea

8.8 Therapeutic advice in De ira and in domina-nutrix scenes

8.9 Furies and phantasia

9: Epilogue

Bibliography

Index Locorum

General Index.

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ISBN:

0-19-899324-2

0-19-899326-9

9780198993261

OCLC:

1569781557