Keywords:
Seneca, stoicism, Oedipus, lógos, roman tragedyAbstract
The study of the Seneca’s plays requires it valuation not only from the point of view of his theatrical aesthetic quality but, above all, from the perspective of his deep philosophical thought. This article analyzes the original frame that Seneca shows of the concept of lógos as an arbitrary, inexorable and irrational force in his tragedy Oedipus. This work, structured around a reflexion on the ignorance and its ethical and vital consequences, shows in a provocatively way a disolution of the ancient reference points through the elaborated technique of the conceptual immersion of the viewer in the narrative and philosophical frame of this classical myth.
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