Seneca’s Oedipus
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Seneca’s Oedipus is a Roman tragic play that reworks the Greek myth of Oedipus with a focus on intense psychological conflict, fate, and moral corruption.
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| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Latin play
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Roman tragedy ⓘ dramatic work ⓘ |
| author | Seneca the Younger NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| basedOn | Oedipus myth ⓘ |
| basedOnWork | Sophocles’ Oedipus Rex NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| character |
Chorus
NERFINISHED
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Creon NERFINISHED ⓘ Jocasta NERFINISHED ⓘ Oedipus NERFINISHED ⓘ Tiresias NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| contrastWith | Sophocles’ Oedipus Rex NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| distinguishingAspect |
greater emphasis on supernatural and necromancy
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heightened rhetorical style ⓘ more explicit depiction of horror ⓘ |
| dramaticDevice |
extended choral odes
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messenger speeches ⓘ offstage violence ⓘ |
| form | verse drama ⓘ |
| genre | tragedy ⓘ |
| historicalInfluenceOn |
Elizabethan and Jacobean drama
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Renaissance tragedy ⓘ |
| language | Latin ⓘ |
| literaryMovement | Stoic-influenced Roman tragedy ⓘ |
| literaryTradition | Roman literature ⓘ |
| mainCharacter | Oedipus NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| meter |
Latin iambic trimeter (dialogue)
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various lyric meters (choral odes) ⓘ |
| narrativeElement |
investigation of King Laius’ murder
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plague afflicting Thebes ⓘ recognition of Oedipus’ true parentage ⓘ self-blinding of Oedipus ⓘ |
| notableFeature |
emphasis on rhetorical monologues
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graphic and sensational imagery ⓘ strong focus on interior psychology ⓘ |
| partOf | corpus of Senecan tragedies ⓘ |
| period | Silver Age of Latin literature NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| philosophicalContext | Stoic ethics ⓘ |
| setting | Thebes NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| structure | five-act structure (conventional attribution) ⓘ |
| survivingStatus | extant complete text ⓘ |
| theme |
divine retribution
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fate ⓘ guilt ⓘ moral corruption ⓘ psychological conflict ⓘ self-knowledge ⓘ |
| timeOfComposition | 1st century CE (approximate) ⓘ |
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