title: Seneca’s Phoenician Women — Genre, Structure, Thematic Unity
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metadata.value: Sapota, Tomasz
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metadata.name: dc.contributor.author
metadata.value: Słomak, Iwona
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metadata.name: dc.date.accessioned
metadata.value: 2021-12-03T17:07:15Z
metadata.lang: -
metadata.name: dc.date.available
metadata.value: 2021-12-03T17:07:15Z
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metadata.name: dc.date.issued
metadata.value: 2021-03
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metadata.name: dc.identifier.citation
metadata.value: Sapota T., Słomak I. Seneca’s Phoenician Women — Genre, Structure, Thematic Unity. Philologia Classica 2021, 16 (1), 77–89.
metadata.lang: en_GB
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metadata.value: https://doi.org/10.21638/spbu20.2021.107
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metadata.value: http://hdl.handle.net/11701/33758
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metadata.name: dc.description.abstract
metadata.value: This article revises current perspectives on the generic status, composition, and subject matter
  of Phoenician Women by Seneca. It adopts a new approach, focusing on selected elements
  of text organisation. In particular, emphasis is given to the construction of characters and the
  analogies and contrasts between them which were already of interest to ancient poetics and
  rhetoric. Moreover, the article refers to observations, accurate but isolated and largely ignored,
  made by scholars who recognised Seneca’s originality and suggested that his plays might have
  been inspired by the declamatory tradition and should be read in the context of evolving postclassical
  literature. By adopting this perspective, it becomes possible to bring together a large
  number of partial conclusions that are related to Phoenician Women as well as other plays by
  Seneca. What is more important, the work brings to light the purposeful composition of the
  drama and its thematic unity, allowing us to return to the MS versions that until now have
  been replaced by conjectures, which often distort the meaning of the text. After dismissing
  the emendations and adopting a new method of reading, Seneca’s Phoenician Women can
  be regarded as complete and well-organised. The play has certain characteristic features of a
  tragedy, of all Seneca’s dramas, it is the one most inspired by the genre of declamation and the
  poetics of Seneca the Elder’s anthology, and it is an example of the use of plot material typical
  of tragedy for presenting the problem of pietas in all its complexity.
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.language.iso
metadata.value: en
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.publisher
metadata.value: St Petersburg State University
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.relation.ispartofseries
metadata.value: Philologia Classica;Volume 16; Issue 1
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metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: Seneca the Younger
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: Phoenician Women
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: declamatory tradition in drama
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: Roman tragedy
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.title
metadata.value: Seneca’s Phoenician Women — Genre, Structure, Thematic Unity
metadata.lang: en_GB
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metadata.value: Article
metadata.lang: en_GB
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