Shades of Virgil: Seneca's Troades

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Virgil (or Virgil) is one of the greatest poets of ancient Rome. His influence on world literature is immeasurable, and his works (and Seneca, Cicero, Orbit, Aristotle, and Plato's works) are constantly being read in the Middle Ages and now. His epic "Aneid" is considered to be his great work, which was later Roman national epic, which later became a model of literature, but he also has many pastoral and educational I wrote a poem. Publius Vergilius Maro (also known as Vergil or Virgil in the English-speaking world) was born in Cisalpine Gaul in northern Italy now in Andean near Mantua in 70 BC. From the details of the sparse biographies we have, his family seems to be discreet, but wealthy enough to allow the young Virgil to go to Cremona and Mediolanum for education.

"Troades" is one of Seneca's most famous and respected plays and has a strong influence on British drama writers such as Jonson, Webster, Marlowe, Shakespeare, and French writers such as Corneille and Racine. . Whether Seneca's drama was originally designed for theater performances or just for recitation was still unknown, but they have performed many times since the Renaissance, and are still on performances today. Although primarily based on Euripides' initial name, the Seneca version adds a story that Polyxena and Astyanax were killed from Euripides' Hecuba ', and an ominous supernatural element making it with Euripides. The original version is the most different and you need to confirm according to your own terms.