Note 18 — Chapter VII · POETIC IN ANCIENT DRAMA AND NARRATIVE

The plays ascribed to L. Annæus Seneca (distinguished as “the younger” or “the philosopher,” circ. 4 B.C.-65 A.D.) are Œdipus, Phœnissæ, Medea, Hercules Furens, Hippolytus (or Phædra), Hercules Œtæus, Thyestes, Troades, Agamemnon. Their authorship is discussed by E. C. Chickering in An introduction to Octavia Prætexta, New York, 1910 (Columbia dissertation), which also contains a brief account of Roman tragedy, reviews the question of the stage production of Seneca, and discusses his rank as tragedian. Ella I. Harris’s Two tragedies of Seneca, Medea and the Daughters of Troy, rendered into English verse, Boston, 1898 (all ten, New York, 1904), summarizes Senecan influence on English drama. See further J. W. Cunliffe’s The influence of Seneca on Elizabethan tragedy, New York, 1893. All the Senecan tragedies are included in The tragedies of Seneca translated into English verse, to which have been appended comparative analyses of the corresponding Greek and Roman plays ... by F. J. Miller, introduced by an essay on the influence of the tragedies of Seneca upon early English drama by J. M. Manly, Chicago, 1907. Miller’s translation is published also in the Loeb Classical Library.