Seneca’s Thyestes

A tragedy not meant to comfort- but to implicate.

Written in the first century CE by Lucius Annaeus Seneca, Thyestes is one of the most extreme works in the Western dramatic tradition: a play of cannibalism, inherited violence, and the collapse of all moral order.

This edition presents Thyestes as it was always meant to be experienced-not as a distant classical artifact, but as a living theatrical event that speaks directly to the modern world.