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Seneca, Poetry, and Suffering

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The Power of Destiny to Take the Most Powerful Man in the World

Dana Joya: The Manus of Hercules by Seneca is a moral critique of polytheism. She says it shows the gods as petty, vengeful, evil beings. When does this happen to Hercules at the greatest moment of his triumph? she asks.Joya: I do think that the play for all of its violence is a deeply moral play.

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