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Seneca’s Hercules Furens presents one version of a well-known myth in literary, artistic, and philosophical tradition. I will identify some stylistic devices of the tragedy in order to make explicit the way in which Hercules’s own ambivalence is related to Seneca’s poetic and generic praxis. I will focalize upon three axes: a. the conceptual ?uctuation around Hercules’s uirtus and labores; b. the thematic inversion through uictor / uictus module, and c. the imaginary of hybridity in connection with the monstrum-motif. Such axes show some of the main dynamics of Senecan poetics, and allow to shed light on the motivations and purposes of including this legendary character in a tragedy of the Neronian period.

Stylistic devices in Seneca’s Hercules furens: myth, reception, and the poetics of tragedy