title: The Superhuman Characters in the Prologues of Seneca’s Hercules Furens, Agamemnon, and Thyestes
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metadata.value: Słomak, Iwona
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metadata.value: 2024-12-02T20:31:17Z
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metadata.name: dc.date.issued
metadata.value: 2023-09
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metadata.value: Słomak I. The Superhuman Characters in the Prologues of Seneca’s Hercules Furens, Agamemnon, and Thyestes. Philologia Classica 2023, 18 (2), 230–245. https://doi.org/10.21638/spbu20.2023.207
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metadata.value: https://doi.org/10.21638/spbu20.2023.207
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metadata.value: http://hdl.handle.net/11701/48075
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metadata.value: This paper presents a new hypothesis concerning the prologues of Seneca’s Hercules Furens,
  Agamemnon, and Thyestes. It provides an interpretive alternative to the controversies associated
  with the current reading tradition, which places superhuman and protatic characters
  speaking in the opening acts of these plays on the same level of fictional reality as other heroes,
  or subordinates them to figurative construction. According to the proposed hypothesis,
  the specific nature of these three scenes may be the result of applying the convention known,
  with little variation, from several other dramas in which the ghosts disturb the sleeping. The
  argumentation emphasises the paradigmatic nature of these opening scenes, which end with
  a formula setting them at the close of the night. It also points to the fact that in the light of the
  new assumptions, these prologues — redundant in their expository and anticipatory function
  — play an important role in structuring the dramatic action. Moreover, in the context
  of the events that follow them, their content can be explained in terms of the dream theory
  known from the rationalising philosophical discourses of antiquity. Finally, proposed reading
  of these scenes is based on the assumption of continuity between the discursive and poetic
  activity of the author.
metadata.lang: en_GB
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metadata.value: en
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metadata.name: dc.publisher
metadata.value: St Petersburg State University
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metadata.value: Philologia Classica;Volume 18; Issue 2
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metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: prologues of Hercules Furens, Agamemnon, and Thyestes
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metadata.value: Seneca’s plays
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metadata.name: dc.title
metadata.value: The Superhuman Characters in the Prologues of Seneca’s Hercules Furens, Agamemnon, and Thyestes
metadata.lang: en_GB
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metadata.value: Article
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