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== The original text ==
In the first century AD, Seneca the Younger wrote a tragedy called Thyestes.

DRAMATIS PERSONAE
THYESTES, brother of Atreus, in exile from his fatherland.
THE GHOST OF TANTALUS, doomed for his sins to come back to earth and inspire his house to greater sin.
THE FURY, who drives the ghost on to do his allotted part.
AN ATTENDANT OF ATREUS.
THREE SONS OF THYESTES, Tantalus, Plisthenes, and another, only one of whom, Tantalus, takes part in the dialogue.
A MESSENGER.
CHORUS, Citizens of Mycenae.

==Translations and adaptations==
Several publications contain English translations, e.g. ''Seneca's tragedies'' with an English translation by Frank Justus Miller. Harvard University Press, 1917.

Translated into Dutch by Hugo Claus, published by De Bezige Bij, 1975.

The work by Hugo Claus is based on the tragedy by Seneca, while that of [[Ben Dehaeck]] is in its turn an adaptation and a translation into [[Afrikaans]] of Claus’s ''Thyestes''.

== Performance history in South Africa ==
[[Ben Dehaeck]] directed the play at the [[Oude Libertas Theatre]] in March 1978 with [[André Roothman]] as Atreus, [[Dirk Winterbach]] as Thyestes and a cast of more than twenty.

== Sources ==
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thyestes

http://www.theoi.com/Text/SenecaThyestes.html

Die Burger. 23 March 1978

Die Matie, 1 April 1978

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 == Performance history in South Africa ==
-[[Ben Dehaeck]] directed the play at the [[Oude Libertas Theatre]] in March 1978 for the [[Libertas Teaterklub]] and [[USAT]], starring [[André Roothman]] as Atreus, [[Dirk Winterbach]] as Thyestes and a cast of more than twenty.
+: [[Ben Dehaeck]] directed the play at the [[Oude Libertas Theatre]] in March 1978 for the [[Libertas Teaterklub]] and [[USAT]], starring [[André Roothman]] as Atreus, [[Dirk Winterbach]] as Thyestes and a cast of more than twenty.
 == Sources ==

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 http://www.theoi.com/Text/SenecaThyestes.html
-''Die Burger'', 23 March 1978
+''[[Die Burger]]'', 23 March 1978
 ''Die Matie'', 1 April 1978

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 == The original text ==
-In the first century AD, Seneca the Younger wrote a tragedy called Thyestes.
+In the first century AD, Seneca the Younger wrote a tragedy called ''Thyestes''.
 DRAMATIS PERSONAE