Agamemnon (Seneca)
Agamemnon is a fabula crepidata (Roman tragedy with Greek subject) of c. 1012 lines of verse written by Lucius Annaeus Seneca in the first century AD, which tells the story of Agamemnon, who was killed by his wife in his palace after his return from Troy.
Characters
- Thyestis umbra (Thyestes' ghost), uncle of Agamemnon
- chorus
- Clytemnestra, wife of Agamemnon
- nutrix (nurse)
- Aegisthus, son of Thyestes, lover of Clytemnestra
- Eurybates
- Cassandra, Trojan princess, mistress of Agamemnon
- Agamemnon, king of Myceneae
- Electra, daughter of Agamemnon and Clytemnestra
- Strophius, husband of Agamemnon's sister
- Orestes (silent role), son of Agamemnon, brother of Electra
- Pylades (silent role), son of Strophius, friend of Orestes
Sources
- Otto Zwierlein (ed.), Seneca Tragoedia (Oxford: Clarendon Press: Oxford Classical Texts: 1986)
- John G. Fitch Tragedies, Volume II: Oedipus. Agamemnon. Thyestes. Hercules on Oeta. Octavia (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press: Loeb Classical Library: 2004)
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