O mundo natural e o espaço do humano na poesia trágica de Séneca: Troades e Thyestes

Abstract

Sequi naturam – living according to Nature – was to the Stoic doctrine followers’ one of the most vital aphorisms and, in fact, the supreme and highest virtue to accomplish, an ideal that Seneca, poet and thinker, never ceased to reiterate in his philosophical works. That same notion of “naturalism” – in its most diverse semantic shades – manifests itself in Seneca’s corpus tragicum, namely in two of the plays concerning the mythological nucleus of Atreus’ house: Troades and Thyestes. In his tragedies the dramatist from Corduba embraces nature not as a mere Stoic inert notion, but as an aesthetic and dramatic principle of extraordinary significance. Natura shines as a privileged poetic technique of expression of emotions and accurate and distinctive drawing of natural spaces.