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Antecedentes y función literaria del sueño de Eneas y Andrómaca: Verg., <i>Aen </i>. II 268-295 y Sen., <i>Troad </i>. 438-488

1998; Spanish National Research Council; Volume: 66; Issue: 2 Linguagem: Espanhol

10.3989/emerita.1998.v66.i2.263

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Santiago López Moreda,

Historical and Literary Analyses

Traditionally it is said that the source of Seneca's tragedies is Euripides. The coincidence with the subjects corroborates it. However, the nearness between tragedy and epic, the Trojan cycle that the first Latin writers of tragedy take for themselves, and, above all, the poetics of artistic effect based on the narrative structure and the lexical and syntactic patterns show that, at least in this passage, Seneca's source is Vergil, who is also the receiver and transmitter of ancient epic and the Greek and Roman tragedy.