Seneca’s Phaedra: Mother Lust
The History Of European Theatre - A podcast by Philip Rowe - Mondays
Episode 42:This episode takes a detailed look at Phaedra, Seneca's version of the Hippolytus myth.The two versions by Euripides and how Seneca used theseA summary of the playThe differences in Seneca's version from Euripides -The position of Phaedra as innocent or responsibleGreek shame Vs Roman guilt and repentancePhaedra and the Roman bas step-mother tropeThe play in relation to Stoic philosophyThe motif of the hunt, the hunter and the huntedPresentations of the play in the medieval periodThis podcast uses the following third-party services for analysis: Chartable - https://chartable.com/privacy Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
