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SENECA AND PANTOMIME - A. Zanobi Seneca's Tragedies and the Aesthetics of Pantomime. Pp. xii + 282. London and New York: Bloomsbury Academic, 2014. Cased, £65. ISBN: 978-1-4725-1188-1.

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  17 December 2014

C. Michael Sampson
C. Michael Sampson*
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University of Manitoba
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The Classical Review , Volume 65 , Issue 1 , April 2015 , pp. 143 - 145
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1 E.g. ‘it seems likely the fourth chorus of Medea [describing Medea at the peak of her furor] … has strong affiliation with tragic pantomime’ (p. 100); ‘the presence of the verb iactare [Ph. 366] … which is vox propria for pantomime, may be an additional sign of the pantomimic nature of the description’ (p. 115); ‘Since Seneca must have been well aware of this popularity [sc. of pantomime], he may have included pantomimic elements to make his tragedies more popular’ (p. 201).

2 E.g. the ‘alien’ technique of description ‘derives from the penetration into Seneca's tragic texts of the stylistic technique of composition of pantomimic libretti’ (p. 90); ‘it is possible that the language of pantomime … may have affected Seneca's writing’ (p. 202).

3 The lyric exchange in act 1 of Troades, for example, ‘could well bear the sign of the influence of the aesthetics of pantomime’ (p. 85). Similarly, ‘The idea that pantomime played a part in the performance of the problematic scripts that have come down to us as “Seneca's tragedies” can help to solve’ (p. 201).