Dawn at Thebes (Seneca, Hercules Furens 125-201)

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Aug 5, 202031:19Education

Juno has just finished her opening monologue in which she whips herself into a frenzy of rage at Hercules. As the chorus enters, they sing of the dawn, then deliver an encomium of the simple country life, away from the a...

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