This monograph is devoted to the most important of Seneca's tragedies, Thyestes, which has had a notable influence on Western drama from Shakespeare to Antonin Artaud. Thyestes emerges as the ...mastertext of 'Silver' Latin poetry, and as an original reflection on the nature of theatre comparable to Euripides' Bacchae. The book analyses the complex structure of the play, its main themes, the relationship between Seneca's vibrant style and his obsession with dark issues of revenge and regression. Substantial discussion of other plays - especially Trojan Women, Oedipus and Medea - permits a comprehensive re-evaluation of Seneca's poetics and its pivotal role in post-Virgilian literature. Topics explored include the relationship between Seneca's plays and his theory of the emotions, the connection between poetic inspiration and the Underworld, and Seneca's treatment of time, which, in a perspective informed by psychoanalysis, is seen as a central preoccupation of Senecan tragedy.
Resumen En este trabajo analizaremos dos tragedias en las cuales consideramos que los conceptos de libido y luxus juegan papeles centrales dentro de la representación: Phaedra y Thyestesofrecen dos ...puestas en escena particulares del lujo impulsadas por un tipo particular de libido, las cuales, en apariencia, se adecúan a las habituales condenas moralizantes de la época de nuestro autor. Pero estas obras van un poco más allá, pues a través de la puesta en escena y la representación retórica de la paupertas y cierto regreso a un estado natural, se deconstruye la idea de Naturaleza al mostrarla, paradójicamente, también como artificio.
Il nome di Agamennone evoca un tempo antico e primitivo, quando il potere coincide con la forza, e una storia familiare che narra di una catena ininterrotta di delitti di sangue. Agamennone è il ...protagonista di una biografia dolorosa, costretto a fare i conti con la maledizione che colpisce la sua famiglia e lo costringe a errori e colpe, imbrigliato dalla rivalità con il più valoroso e nobile degli eroi, Achille, da cui esce sconfitto prima ancora della sfida, vincitore di Troia, ma vittima di un destino tragico. Questo volume nasce nel solco di una tradizione di studi del Dipartimento di Beni Culturali e del Centro di Studi ‘La permanenza del Classico’ dell’Università di Bologna iniziata con Edipo (Edipo classico e contemporaneo, 2012) e proseguita con le Troiane (Troiane classiche e contemporanee, 2017) e raccoglie saggi sulle versioni antiche del mito, le tragedie di Eschilo e Seneca, sulle riscritture moderne e contemporanee, nella letteratura, nel teatro, nella musica, nell’arte.
Da più di due millenni la vicenda mitica di Oreste, stretto fra la necessità di vendicare il padre assassinato e l’orrore dell’atto matricida, solleva un complesso di istanze etico-religiose e ...intellettuali capaci di interrogare nel profondo società e individui di epoche e luoghi diversi, in relazione a concetti come la vendetta, la contaminazione, l’autodeterminazione umana e l’eterodirezione divina. Questo volume presenta gli atti del Convegno Internazionale Il mito degli Atridi dal teatro antico all’epoca contemporanea, tenuto presso il Dipartimento di Filologia, Letteratura e Linguistica dell’Università di Pisa il 26-27 maggio 2020, nell’ambito del Progetto di Ricerca di Ateneo 2020 dallo stesso titolo. I saggi spaziano su vari momenti della lunga storia di questo affascinante complesso mitico.
Seneca's Characters addresses one of the most enduring and least theorised elements of literature: fictional character and its relationship to actual, human selfhood. Where does the boundary between ...character and person lie? While the characters we encounter in texts are obviously not 'real' people, they still possess person-like qualities that stimulate our attention and engagement. How is this relationship formulated in contexts of theatrical performance, where characters are set in motion by actual people, actual bodies and voices? This book addresses such questions by focusing on issues of coherence, imitation, appearance and autonomous action. It argues for the plays' sophisticated treatment of character, their acknowledgement of its purely fictional ontology alongside deep – and often dark – appreciation of its quasi-human qualities. Seneca's Characters offers a fresh perspective on the playwright's powerful tragic aesthetics that will stimulate scholars and students alike.
Only a four-verse fragment, a quote by Athenaeus, has remained from Thyestes, the tragedy by Agathon. In that short fragment the Curetes appear as suitors of Amphithea, the niece of Adrastus: they ...say that they have shaved their hair off after being rejected. In this article it is posed the hypothesis that the topic in Agathon’s Thyestes might be similar to that of Thyestes in Sicion, by Sophocles, whose plot seems to be depicted in Hyg. Tab 88 and in a crater of Apulia: the rape of Pelopia by her father Thyestes and the abandonment of Aegisthus, the child of the incestuous union. Also, in the article there’s an attempt to reconstruct the plot of Agathon’s play by justifying the presence of the Curetes and trying to find the relationship between these and the legend of Thyestes as well as the episode of the Amphithea’s wedding. Finally, it is suggested the possibility that the Thyestes could have been a satirical play or a mixture of elements of both satirical play and tragedy.
De la tragedia Tiestes de Agatón ha quedado un solo fragmento de cuatro versos (fr. 3 Sn-K) citado por Ateneo. En él los Curetes aparecen como pretendientes a la mano de Anfitea, la sobrina de Adrasto, y afirman haber rapado sus cabezas tras ser rechazados. En este artículo se propone la hipótesis de que el tema de la obra fuera similar al del Tiestes en Sición de Sófocles, cuyo argumento, al parecer, está recogido en la Fab. 88 de Higino y en una cratera de Apulia: la violación de Pelopia por su padre Tiestes y la exposición del hijo nacido del incesto, Egisto. Asimismo, se intenta reconstruir en la medida de lo posible el argumento del drama de Agatón, justificando la presencia de los Curetes y buscando la relación de estos con la leyenda de Tiestes y con el episodio de la boda de Anfitea. finalmente, se plantea la posibilidad de que la obra fuera un drama satírico o que mezclara elementos de la tragedia y el drama satírico.
In the past decade, considerable progress has been made towards a better understanding of the development of the dermal skeleton in osteostracans. Based on the study of the fine shield structure in ...Thyestes verrucosus Eichwald, 1854 from the Silurian of Saaremaa Island (Estonia), a model for the formation of its exoskeleton was proposed (Afanassieva, 2002, 2004b). New information on well-preserved juvenile
Superciliaspis gabrielsei
(Dineley et Loeffler, 1976) from the Lower Devonian of Canada, North West Territories, allowed the determination of ontogenetic patterns of the dermal skeleton in the tessellated taxon (Hawthorn et al., 2008). A comparison of the data on shield development in consolidated Thyestes and tessellated Superciliaspis and also additional study of the material of Thyestes verrucosus corroborated the previous conclusions and displayed new features of the formation of exoskeleton in this species. A different formation pattern of the exoskeleton was established in
Paraungulaspis arctoa
(Afanassieva et Karatajūtė-Talimaa, 1998) from the Lower Devonian of October Revolution Island of the Severnaya Zemlya Archipelago, Russia (Afanassieva, 2011; Afanassieva and Karatajūtė-Talimaa, 2013). A comparison of the exoskeleton structure and growth of the hard covering in Thyestes verrucosus and Paraungulaspis arctoa corroborated the conclusion that these species belong to different phyletic lineages of osteostracans.
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