Symbolae Philologorum Posnaniensium, 2013, nr XXIII/1

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Evil Goddesses, Flawed Heroes. Divine Wrath and Human Error in Seneca’s Hercules furens and Phaedra.
(Wydawnictwo Poznańskiego Towarzystwa Przyjaciół Nauk, 2013-06-30) Pypłacz, Joanna
The present article discusses the relationship between deities and human beings in Seneca’s tragedies. Only in two of them – Hercules furens and Phaedra – do gods significantly influence the plot. Holding personal grudges against the main characters of these plays, the goddesses Juno and Venus set out to destroy Hercules and Hippolytus respectively by exploiting significant flaws in their characters.
The hero and his mothers in Seneca’s Hercules Furens
(Wydawnictwo Poznańskiego Towarzystwa Przyjaciół Nauk, 2013-06-30) Stróżyński, Mateusz
The article deals with an image of the heroic self in Seneca’s Hercules as well as with maternal images (Alcmena, Juno and Megara), using psychoanalytic methodology involving identification of complementary self-object relationships. Hercules’ self seems to be construed mainly in an omnipotent, narcissistic fashion, whereas the three images of mothers reflect show the interaction between love and aggression in the play.