The image of sun retreat on Seneca's tragedy Thyestes

Abstract

This short work analyses the recurrent image of sun retreat and light on Seneca's tragedy Thyestes, revealing her relation with stoic philosophic doctrines. The topic of lightness absence will be associated to the ratio absence and passions domain on Atreus and Thyestes acts. The metaphor of sun recoil, saw also as a metonymy, will expand the image meaning to the representation of cosmologic chaos, caused by lógos absence.