Triumvir Clio's School of Classical Civilization

Roman Tragedy VI: Seneca’s Troades, or Not Euripides’s Trojan Women


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Seneca merges two of Euripides’s plays about the end of the Trojan War with mixed results.

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References

Gabriel-Jones, Betty. Notes on Seneca’s Trojan Women for VCE Students. Available at https://classicsvic.files.wordpress.com/2014/01/gabrieljonesvol18.pdf. Accessed 29 Dec 2021

Seneca. Ella Isabel Harris, translator. Tragedies, Digireads.com Publishing, 2020.

“Troades (The Trojan Women – Seneca the Younger – Ancient Rome – Classical Literature". Ancient Literature, https://www.ancient-literature.com/rome_seneca_troades.html.  Accessed 29 Dec 2021

Wikipedia contributors. "Troades (Seneca)." Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia. Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia, 20 Aug. 2021. Web. 29 Dec. 2021.

Wilson, Emily, translator. Seneca: Six Tragedies, a new translation by Emily Wilson, Oxford University Press, 2010.

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