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- Title
ATREUS ARTIFEX (SENECA, THYESTES 906-7).
- Authors
Mader, Gottfried
- Abstract
A literary criticism of the poem "Thyestes," by Lucius Annaeus Seneca is presented. It explores the voyeuristic impulse of the poem that indicates the raw savagery, which is familiar from a number of other Senecan passages, with the avid spectatorial interest at gratuitous displays of butchery in the arena. It examines how Atreus is consistently represented as a master of ambiguity with his loaded rhetoric that allows the evil genius to shimmer through.
- Subjects
CRITICISM; THYESTES (Poem : Seneca); SENECA, Lucius Annaeus, ca. 4 B.C.-65 A.D.; ATREUS, King of Mycenae (Mythological character); GREEK mythology
- Publication
Classical Quarterly, 2010, Vol 60, Issue 1, p277
- ISSN
0009-8388
- Publication type
Literary Criticism
- DOI
10.1017/S000983880999067X