Phoenissae (Seneca)

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Phoenissae (Phoenician women) is a fabula crepidata (Roman tragedy with Greek subject) written by Lucius Annaeus Seneca; with c. 664 lines of verse it is his shortest play. It's situated in Thebes in Boeotia, the city founded by Cadmus, who came from Sidon, in Phoenicia.

Characters

  • Oedipus, son of Iocasta
  • Antigona, daughter of Oedipus and Iocasta
  • nuntius (messenger)
  • Iocasta, mother and wife of Oedipus
  • satelles (attendant)
  • Polynices, son of Oedipus and Iocasta, twin brother of Eteocles
  • Eteocles, son of Oedipus and Iocasta, twin brother of Polynices
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