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- Title
JOCASTA'S CATILINARIAN ORATION (SEN. PHOEN. 632-43).
- Authors
GINSBERG, LAUREN
- Abstract
As Seneca's Jocasta pleads with Polynices to cease his assault on his homeland and return into exile, she borrows language from Cicero's In Catilinam 1 and Sallust's Bellum Catilinae. As a result, Seneca brings the mythological world of the Phoenissae into dialogue with a moment of strife from Rome's past at a crucial moment in the unfinished tragedy's action. In doing so, the playwright uses the memory of Catiline to foreground Jocasta's fraught relationship with the citizen enemy to whom she gave birth.
- Subjects
JOCASTA (Greek mythology); POLYNEICES (Greek mythology); SALLUST, 86 B.C.-34 B.C.; BELLUM Catilinae (Book); DRAMATISTS
- Publication
Classical Journal, 2016, Vol 111, Issue 4, p483
- ISSN
0009-8353
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.5184/classicalj.111.4.0483