STYLISTIC DEVICES IN SENECA’S HERCULES FURENS: MYTH, RECEPTION, AND THE POETICS OF TRAGEDY

Seneca’s Hercules Furens presents one version of a well-known myth in literary, artistic, and philosophical tradition. I will identify some stylistic devices of the tragedy in order to make explicit the way in which Hercules’s own ambivalence is related to Seneca’s poetic and generic praxis. I will...

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Main Author: Eleonora Tola
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Sociedade Brasileira de Estudos Clássicos (SBEC) 2012-07-01
Series:Classica, Revista Brasileira de Estudos Clássicos
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Online Access:https://revista.classica.org.br/classica/article/view/73