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Don’t Stand So Close to Me: Antigone’s Pietas in Seneca’s Phoenissae

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Ginsberg, LD
Published in: TAPA
March 2015

summary: Seneca’s Phoenissae imbues Antigone’s canonical pietas with elegiac associations. Her appeals to her father recycle familiar topoi from amatory poetry, especially the amator ’s pledge to follow ( sequor ) the beloved anywhere. Her father, in turn, is often disturbed by her physical proximity and attempts to escape further incestuous temptation ( timeo post matrem omnia ). In the end, however, Oedipus capitulates to his daughter’s elegiac rhetoric and responds to her in similarly amatory terms. In this way Seneca subverts the loyalty that defined Antigone in prior literary treatments to create the potential for an incestuous sequel to his earlier tragedy of Thebes.

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2575-7199

Publication Date

March 2015

Volume

145

Issue

1

Start / End Page

199 / 230

Publisher

Project MUSE

Related Subject Headings

  • 4705 Literary studies
  • 4704 Linguistics
  • 4303 Historical studies
 

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Ginsberg, L. D. (2015). Don’t Stand So Close to Me: Antigone’s Pietas in Seneca’s Phoenissae. TAPA, 145(1), 199–230. https://doi.org/10.1353/apa.2015.0003
Ginsberg, Lauren Donovan. “Don’t Stand So Close to Me: Antigone’s Pietas in Seneca’s Phoenissae.” TAPA 145, no. 1 (March 2015): 199–230. https://doi.org/10.1353/apa.2015.0003.
Ginsberg, Lauren Donovan. “Don’t Stand So Close to Me: Antigone’s Pietas in Seneca’s Phoenissae.” TAPA, vol. 145, no. 1, Project MUSE, Mar. 2015, pp. 199–230. Crossref, doi:10.1353/apa.2015.0003.
Ginsberg LD. Don’t Stand So Close to Me: Antigone’s Pietas in Seneca’s Phoenissae. TAPA. Project MUSE; 2015 Mar;145(1):199–230.
Journal cover image

Published In

TAPA

DOI

EISSN

2575-7199

Publication Date

March 2015

Volume

145

Issue

1

Start / End Page

199 / 230

Publisher

Project MUSE

Related Subject Headings

  • 4705 Literary studies
  • 4704 Linguistics
  • 4303 Historical studies