Seneca
Violence in literature
Drama, history and criticism
Tragedy
In literature
Drama
History and criticism
Written in Nero's Rome in about AD 62, Seneca's Thyestes is one of the greatest and most influential of classical tragedies. As the bloodiest work in the Greco-Roman canon, Thyestes was long reviled for its depiction of savage violence and for its representation of human bestiality. Peter Davis argu…
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