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However, " his plays continued to be applauded even after those of Aeschylus and Sophocles had come to seem remote and irrelevant ", they became school classics in the Hellenistic period ( as mentioned in the introduction ) and, due to Seneca's adaptation of his work for Roman audiences, " it was Euripides, not Aeschylus or Sophocles, whose tragic muse presided over the rebirth of tragedy in Renaissance Europe.
Seneca's plays were widely read in medieval and Renaissance European universities and strongly influenced tragic drama in that time, such as Elizabethan England ( Shakespeare and other playwrights ), France ( Corneille and Racine ), and the Netherlands ( Joost van den Vondel ).
* Octavia: closely resemble Seneca's plays in style, but is written by someone with a keen knowledge of Seneca's plays and philosophical works, a short time after Seneca's death, perhaps in the 70s of the 1st century AD.
It is still unclear if Seneca's plays were performed or recited during Roman times ; at any rate, Elizabethan and Jacobean playwrights staged them, as it were, with a vengeance, in plays full of gruesome and often darkly comic violence.

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With Luigi Squarzina in 1952 he co-founded and co-directed the Teatro d ' Arte Italiano, producing the first complete version of Hamlet in Italy, then rare works such as Seneca's Thyestes and Aeschylus's The Persians.
Seneca's community campuses offer community-based services delivered by the College such as employment services for adults and specialized programs for Internationally-Trained Immigrants and academic upgrading.

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It would make sense that Seneca's position of power would make him vulnerable to trumped-up charges, as many public figures were at the time.
Many scholars have thought, following the ideas of the 19th century German scholar Leo, that Seneca's tragedies were written for recitation only.
Other scholars think that they were written for performance and that it is possible that actual performance had taken place in Seneca's lifetime.
It is claimed by Tacitus that Agrippina exercised some erotic power over her son and that Acte advised Nero to resist this power, out of fear for her own safety and with Seneca's encouragement ; she warned Nero of the potential political repercussions with the military if incest with his mother were to become public.
Seneca's first homes from 1967 to 1969 were various buildings in North York:
Seneca's account that " Virgil ... aimed, not to teach the farmer, but to please the reader ," underlines that Virgil's poetic and philosophic themes were abounding in his hexameters ( Sen., Moral Letter 86. 15 ).
Regardless of whether the Monte Cassino manuscripts were moved to Florence by Boccaccio or dal Strada, Boccaccio made use of the Annals when he wrote Commento di Dante c. 1374, giving an account of Seneca's death directly based on the Tacitean account in Annals book 15.

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Caligula began his first year as emperor in 38, and there was a severe conflict between him and Seneca ; the emperor is said to have spared his life only because he expected Seneca's natural life to be near its end.
When the Tomoka was boarded under cover of the Seneca's guns, I immediately set sail and ran away with the boarding party-one lieutenant, one bos ' n and thirteen seamen-and only upon their pleas did I heave to and put them back on the Seneca.

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Titus ' revenge may also have been influenced by Seneca's play Thyestes, written in the first century AD.
The epigraph "" ( Nothing is more hateful to wisdom than excessive cleverness ) attributed by Poe to Seneca was not found in Seneca's known work.
Yet Seneca's own writing for fictitious speakers and situations aims above all at a striking effect on the audience and is characterized by " mannerism ", " exaggerated use of the colores " and " use of a brilliant, precious style, one that has recourse to all the artifices of Asianism, from the accumulation of the rhetorical figures to densely epigrammatic expression to care over the rhythm of the period.
Of this we learn something from the younger Seneca's De vita patris ( H. Peter, Historicorum Romanorum fragmenta, 1883, pp. 292, 301 ), of which the beginning was discovered by Barthold Georg Niebuhr.
* Stationer Thomas Marsh publishes Seneca's Tragedies in English, a collected edition of ten dramas written by Seneca the Younger ( or attributed to him ), translated by Jasper Heywood, John Studley, Alexander Neville, Thomas Newton, and Thomas Nuce.
However, when Giovanni Boccaccio ( 1313-1375 ) was commissioned by the city of Florence to write Commento di Dante which he completed c. 1374 ( before the birth of Poggio Bracciolini ), he made clear use of the Annals when he gave an account of Seneca's death directly based on the Tacitus account in Annals book 15.
Buttonville is the home of Seneca's fleet of aircraft and flight training devices, used for training by students enrolled in the Bachelor of Aviation Program.
* Seneca the Younger, Seneca's translation ( or paraphrase ) of Aristo's views (ยง 5-17 ), followed by Seneca's riposte.

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Similarly, Eumolpus ' poem on the capture of Troy ( 89 ) has been related to Nero's Troica and to the tragedies of Seneca the Younger, and parody of Seneca's Epistles has been detected in the moralising remarks of characters in the Satyricon.
Finally, and most substantially, Seneca's tragedies are much more prone to revolve around literary quibbles, even leaving aside the plot of the play for entire sections while the characters engage in an essentially linguistic tangent.

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Seneca's Apocolocyntosis reinforces the view of Claudius as an unpleasant fool and this remained the official view for the duration of Nero's reign.
Seneca's various works give mostly scattered anecdotes on Caligula's personality.
Seneca's " vital spot " seems to have meant the neck.
By 1532, Calvin received his licentiate in law and published his first book, a commentary on Seneca's De Clementia.
Seneca's tragedies greatly influenced the growth of tragic drama in Europe.
Nine of Seneca's tragedies survive, all of which are fabula crepidata ( tragedies adapted from Greek originals ); his Phaedra, for example, was based on Euripides ' Hippolytus.
Seneca's tragedies rework those of all three of the Athenian tragic playwrights whose work has survived.
Galen repeats Seneca's points but adds a new one: finding a guide and teacher can help the person in controlling their passions.
One of his revisionist modern biographers, however, Miriam Griffin says in her biography of Seneca that " the evidence for Seneca's life before his exile in 41 is so slight, and the potential interest of these years, for social history as well as for biography, is so great that few writers on Seneca have resisted the temptation to eke out knowledge with imagination.
Seneca's own writings describe his poor health.
Seneca's influence was said to be especially strong in the first year.
According to it, Nero ordered Seneca's wife to be saved.
Robin Campbell, a translator of Seneca's letters, writes that the " stock criticism of Seneca right down the centuries been ... the apparent contrast between his philosophical teachings and his practice.
" We are therefore left with no contemporary record of Seneca's life, save for the desperate opinion of Publius Suilius.
More recent work is changing the dominant perception of Seneca as a mere conduit for pre-existing ideas showing originality in Seneca's contribution to the history of ideas.
Examination of Seneca's life and thought in relation to contemporary education and to the psychology of emotions is revealing a relevance of his thought.
Specifically devoting a chapter to his treatment of anger and its management she shows Seneca's appreciation of the damaging role of uncontrolled anger, and its pathological connections.
Nussbaum later extended her examination to Seneca's contribution to political philosophy showing considerable subtlety and richness in his thoughts about politics, education and notions of global citizenship and finding a basis for reform minded education in Seneca's ideas that allows her to propose a mode of modern education which steers clear of both narrow traditionalism and total rejection of tradition.

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