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en-wikipedia-org-8687		Senecan tragedy - Wikipedia			.html	text/html	866	150	67	Find sources: "Senecan tragedy" – news · newspapers · books · scholar · JSTOR (July 2008) (Learn how and when to remove this template message) Senecan tragedy refers to a set of ten ancient Roman tragedies, probably eight of which were written by the Stoic philosopher and politician Lucius Annaeus Seneca. Many of the Senecan tragedies employ the same Greek myths as tragedies by Sophocles, Aeschylus, and Euripides; but scholars tend not to view Seneca's works as direct adaptations of those Attic works, as Seneca's approach differs, and he employs themes familiar from his philosophical writings.[2] It is possible that the style was more directly influenced by Augustan literature[3]. The first English tragedy, Gorboduc (1561), by Thomas Sackville and Thomas Norton, is a chain of slaughter and revenge written in direct imitation of Seneca. Wikipedia articles incorporating a citation from the 1911 Encyclopaedia Britannica with Wikisource reference	./cache/en-wikipedia-org-8687.html	./txt/en-wikipedia-org-8687.txt