Sublime

I really recommend the plays by Euripides or Aeschylus. They deal with a lot of the essential problems we struggle with even today. In khoros.”

Agamemnon commet une erreur : il ravit à Achille sa promise, Briséis, jeune captive qui revenait au guerrier comme une part de butin. Que n’a-t-il pas fait là, le vieux chef ! Le blond et bel héros, chef des Myrmidons, Achille aux « pieds-rapides », Achille « cher à Zeus » est le meilleur guerrier. Humilié, il se réfugie sous sa tente pour ruminer

The play is set during three days in 62 ce and covers Nero’s divorce of his first wife Octavia (presented as an innocent victim of the tyrant’s crazy passions), his cruel act of exiling her, and his remarriage to Poppaea. Seneca features as a character in the play, a counselor who offers all the right advice but goes unheeded by the despotic Nero.