Octavia (drama)
Octavia is the title of a Roman drama. It is ascribed to the younger Seneca and is the only fabula praetexta (drama with real historical content) that has come down to us . Seneca's authorship is generally excluded from research. It depicts the repudiation of Octavia , daughter of the Roman Emperor Claudius, by Emperor Nero , her adoptive brother and husband. The latter disdained the wife in favor of his mistress Poppaea .
Text output
- Rolando Ferri (Ed.): Octavia. A play attributed to Seneca. Ed. with introd. and commentary . Cambridge Univ. Press, Cambridge 2003. ISBN 0-521-82326-9 .
literature
- Luigi Castagna, Gregor Vogt-Spira (eds.): Pervertere. Aesthetics of the reverse. Literature and culture of the Neronian era and their reception (= contributions to antiquity . Volume 151). Saur, Munich / Leipzig 2002, ISBN 3-598-77700-0 .
- LD Ginsberg: Staging Memory, Staging Strife. Empire and Civil War in the Octavia. Oxford University Press, Oxford 2017.
- Peter Habermehl : The demons of history. Mourning work and historical reflection in the Ps. Senecan Octavia . In: Antiquity and the Occident . Volume 54, 2008, pp. 111-126.
- WV Harris: Restraining Rage: The Ideology of Anger Control in Classical Antiquity . Harvard University Press, Cambridge 2001.
- Joe Park Poe: Octavia praetexta and its Senecan Model. In: American Journal of Philology . Volume 110, Number 3, 1989, pp. 434-459.
- Marcus Wilson (Ed.): The Tragedy of Nero's Wife. Studies on the Octavia Praetexta (= Prudentia. Volume 35, number 1). Polygraphia, Clearwater Cove 2003.