The Medium and the Messenger in Seneca’s Phaedra, Thyestes, and Trojan Women

The Medium and the Messenger in Seneca’s Phaedra, Thyestes, and Trojan Women

The language of Seneca’s messenger speeches concentrates preceding patterns of imagery into grotesquely violent action. In three tragedies – , , and – the report of an anonymous messenger dominates an entire act. All three scenes describe gruesome deaths: the impalement of Hippolytus on a tree trunk...

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