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Two Tragedies of Seneca
Lucius Annaeus Seneca
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Who moves the tripod, Dian's brother mild;
The skillful boxer Pollux; Castor, too, 90
Must yield the palm to Jason. O ye gods
Who dwell in heaven, ever may the bride
Surpass all women, he excel all men!
Before her beauty in the women's choir
The beauty of the other maids grows dim; 95
So with the sunrise pales the light of stars,
So when the moon with brightness not her own
Fills out her crescent horns, the Pleiads fade.
Her cheeks blush like white cloth 'neath Tyrian dyes,
Or as the shepherd sees the light of stars 100
Grow rosy with the dawn. O happy one,
Accustomed once to clasp unwillingly
A wife unloved and reckless, snatched away
From that dread Colchian marriage, take thy bride,
The Ãolian virgin—'tis her father's will. 105
Bright offspring of the thyrsus-beari. . . Read More
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Community Reviews
seminar
aw baby astyanax got his (gore warning)
skull smashed on the walls of troy. better luck next time.
came for medea and jason, stayed for hektor and andromacbe supremacy
Somehow I always felt a small sparkle of sympathy for Medea. Greek mythology rarely is kind to women and recently I've read there is a long lost, alternative ending in which she doesn't kill her children at all. In that version, she is doing all in her power to save them.
Anyway, I couldn't help but
What lovely, angry plays these were. So much fire and bitterness. Oh.
These were two plays by Seneca, retelling the Greek tales of Medea and the women of Troy right after its fall. There were earlier versions by Euripides. I guess you could say these are remakes.
The action is in both plays revolve
Greek tale, in Latin, translated to English iambic pentametrical verse. Eh, I'm sure much has been lost or altered. I am NO scholar of classics but I enjoyed these; I had never read Medea. Oh, I liked the Euripedes "Women of Troy" better, because Kate Hepburn kicked ass as Hecuba in the 1970s film.