Medea & Thyestes - Softcover

Seneca

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ISBN 10: 1521726337 ISBN 13: 9781521726334

Publisher: Independently published, 2017

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In Greek mythology, Medea the daughter of King Ae�tes of Colchis, niece of Circe, granddaughter of the sun god Helios, and later wife to the hero Jason. In Euripides' play Medea, Jason abandons Medea when Creon, king of Corinth, offers his daughter Glauce. The play tells of Medea avenging her husband's betrayal by killing their children. Medea figures in the myth of Jason and the Argonauts, a myth known best from a late literary version worked up by Apollonius of Rhodes in the third century BC and called the Argonautica. Medea is known in most stories as a sorceress, and is often depicted as a priestess of the goddess Hecate or a witch. The myth of Jason and Medea is very old, originally written around the time Hesiod wrote the Theogony. In Greek mythology, Thyestes was the son of Pelops and Hippodamia. He was a king of Olympia and father of Pelopia and Aegisthus. 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. They took refuge in Mycenae, where they ascended the throne upon the absence of King Eurystheus, who was fighting the Heracleidae. Eurystheus had meant for their lordship to be temporary; it became permanent because of his death in conflict. The most popular representation of Thyestes is that of the play Thyestes by Seneca in 62 AD. This play is one of the originals for the revenge tragedy genre. Although inspired by Greek mythology and legend, Seneca's version is different.

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Text: English, Latin

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'the first detailed commentary ever to be produced in English on a Senecan tragedy ... gives all the linguistic and metrical help an undergraduate might need' Classical Review 'the Oxford University Press is to be congratulated on publishing this excellent edition' Journal of Roman Studies 'an admirable new text of the Medea and a very valuable commentary of the type that opens new horizons' Prudentia

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