Il ‘luogo’ di Andromaca nelle Troiane di Seneca

Abstract

In his Troades Seneca brings Andromacha back to her essential place: on the background of Troy’s destruction, the dramatic action is suggested by Euripides’ Andromache, set in Phthia, and inspired by the episode of her meeting with Aeneas in Butroto in Vergil’s Aeneis. The character ‘goes back’ to Troy: this strategy, displaying the sequences after the Trojan war, perfects the regressive vocation of the character. In agreement with a tradition promoted also by the Cicero’s rhetoric, Seneca makes the features of Andromacha absolute and overturns the symbolism of the Aeneis about the Trojan descendants in the funeral scene at the end of the play.