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Anguish! Fear! Hatred! Seneca writes as the furies curse Tantalus to haunt his living family. It is fearsome how he has bottled up these sentiments of eternal torture and determined ways to explore how, for example, a former king of Lydia who tried to feed his son, Pelops, to the gods - these classical tragedies are explorations of intense human emotion and suffering!