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    How much do you know about Seneca?

    In addition to moral essays, Seneca wrote a set of tragedies. What feature usually stands out in these works compared to classical Greek theater?

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    Total absence of violence on scene
    Exclusive use of the choir as narrator
    Always comical endings
    Greater emphasis on rhetoric, the excessive and the moralizingCorrect

    The Senequista tragedies are associated with a rhetorical style and extreme scenes, influential in later European theater.

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