Thyestes (Seneca)

Thyestes

Feast of Thyestes (15th-century manuscript)
Author	Lucius Annaeus Seneca
Language	Latin
Genre	Tragedy
Set in	Mycenae and Argos
Publication date	1st century
Publication place	Rome
Text	Thyestes at Wikisource

Thyestes is a first century AD fabula crepidata (Roman tragedy with Greek subject) of approximately 1112 lines of verse by Lucius Annaeus Seneca, which tells the story of Thyestes, who unwittingly ate his own children who were slaughtered and served at a banquet by his brother Atreus.^[1] As with most of Seneca's plays, Thyestes is based upon an older Greek version with the same name by Euripides.