La strana coppia. Tieste e Cassandra profeti di sventura nell’Agamemnon

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dc.contributor.author	Berno Francesca Romana
dc.title	La strana coppia. Tieste e Cassandra profeti di sventura nell’Agamemnon di Seneca
dc.type	Chapter
dc.language.iso	it
dc.description.abstract	In Seneca’s Agamemnon, we find two prophecies of the king’s murder: the first made by Thyestes’ ghost in the opening of the play, and the second made by Cassandra. Thyestes reads the events as a posthumous revenge against his brother Atreus, who was Agamemnon’s father: to fulfil this aim, he also committed incest with his daughter. His prophecy is thus focused on the son of the incest, Aegisthus. Cassandra, on her side, considers the killing of Agamemnon as a vengeance for his destroyed motherland Troy, and the death of his father and brothers. Her prediction is centered on Helen’s sister, Clytemnestra. The factual narrative of the murder, delivered by the same Cassandra, differs from both prophecies, and shows how the two seers tried to manipulate the events at their personal revenge aims. Indeed, they both read the play as their own drama, competing for authorship.
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dc.relation.ispartof	Lexis Studies in Greek and Latin Literature
dc.publisher	Edizioni Ca’ Foscari - Venice University Press, Fondazione Università Ca’ Foscari
dc.issued	2022-12-13
dc.dateAccepted	2022-03-15
dc.dateSubmitted	2021-12-22
dc.identifier.uri	http://edizionicafoscari.it/en/edizioni4/libri/978-88-6969-633-6/la-strana-coppia-tieste-e-cassandra-profeti-di-sve/
dc.identifier.doi	10.30687/978-88-6969-632-9/005
dc.identifier.issn	2210-8866
dc.identifier.eissn	2724-3362
dc.identifier.isbn	978-88-6969-633-6
dc.identifier.eisbn	978-88-6969-632-9
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dc.subject	Agamemnon
dc.subject	Authorship
dc.subject	Cassandra
dc.subject	Prophecies
dc.subject	Thyestes

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La strana coppia. Tieste e Cassandra profeti di sventura nell’Agamemnon di Seneca

Francesca Romana Berno La Sapienza Università di Roma, Italia

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In Seneca’s Agamemnon, we find two prophecies of the king’s murder: the first made by Thyestes’ ghost in the opening of the play, and the second made by Cassandra. Thyestes reads the events as a posthumous revenge against his brother Atreus, who was Agamemnon’s father: to fulfil this aim, he also committed incest with his daughter. His prophecy is thus focused on the son of the incest, Aegisthus. Cassandra, on her side, considers the killing of Agamemnon as a vengeance for his destroyed motherland Troy, and the death of his father and brothers. Her prediction is centered on Helen’s sister, Clytemnestra. The factual narrative of the murder, delivered by the same Cassandra, differs from both prophecies, and shows how the two seers tried to manipulate the events at their personal revenge aims. Indeed, they both read the play as their own drama, competing for authorship.

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Dec. 13, 2022

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March 15, 2022

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Dec. 22, 2021

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Keywords: Prophecies • Thyestes • Agamemnon • Cassandra • Authorship

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