[lit-ideas] Re: The Death of Seneca -- promotional?
- From: John Wager <john.wager1@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Sun, 04 Nov 2007 11:26:52 -0600
Lawrence Helm wrote:
One might want to exit a month early rather than make a spectacle of
oneself if a lot of pain is present.
Nero ordered Senaca's suicide. I'm guessing that if one did not want
one's relatives, estate, and slaves to also suffer the emperor's ill
temper, suicide was the only option.
For more, from the notes to accompany a current production of Thyestes
in Chicago, see here:
http://www.courttheatre.org/home/plays/0708/thyestes/playnotes.shtml#4
(I LOVE Chicago as a theatre town!!)
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