In the canon
Four Tragedies
- Form
- Form Play
- Year
- Year 50 CE
- Originally in
- Originally in Latin
- Pages
- Pages 320
Atreus cooks his brother's children and serves them at a banquet, then has the heads brought in so Thyestes can understand what he has just eaten. Seneca wrote that scene while tutoring the boy who became Nero, and years later opened his own veins on that pupil's order.
I am Medea; in the bitter school of woe My powers have ripened.
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