Seneca’s “Thyestes” for the first time in Greece on the tomb of Atreus in Mycenae

On Friday, June 16in an overwhelming atmosphere, his work was presented for the first time in Greece Seneca “Thyestus“, performed and directed Ilias Malandri in its natural space inside the tomb of Atreus in Mycenae, in the presence of the public and officials following the initiative of Ephorate of Antiquities of Argolis.

The performance brought together actors such as Nikitas TsakiroglouThe Grigoris ValtinosThe Yannis Vouros with the participation of their excellent colleagues: Georgia Anestihim Niko Geliahim Costas Nikoulisthe Chrysanthi Georgantidouhim Pavlos Loutsidis with the form Oratory in his musical composition and performance Nikos Xanthouliswith singers Nikolas Karagiauris and the Harry Anastasopoulos.

The play was performed in translation from its Latin text Uranias Papakonstantopoulouthe movement was edited by Vasia Aggelidou and the editing of suits n Koula Galioni. The contact person was Chrysa Matsaganisound engineer o Dimitris Bourboulis and lighting o George Charalambous. The show they watched professors, archaeologists, studentss, audience and guests, was filmed to be played from Public Television.

The Treasure of Atreus

A few words about the project

The story of Holy dinnersin which the vengeful Atreus forces his brother Thyestes to devour his own children, marks the beginning of the curse of the house of Atreides and constitutes the transfer of the myth to ancient and Roman drama. As can be seen from the fragmentary texts, it has influenced them Greeks and Latins authors who have written plays with this theme. However only this work has been saved in its entirety to our days.

Seneca's — *Grigoris Valtinos / Yiannis Vouros*

In the crowded archaeological site of the Treasury of Atreus at Mycenae at a historic moment which opened its doors to present the work inside the magnificent vaulted tomb, with its wonderful acoustics, without microphone amplification to alter the natural sound, the audience in attendance had the opportunity to witness the presentation of a precursor work of works of horror and terrorhowever high in power and quality of the speech of the leading Latin writer Leucius Seneca, demanding exhausting and heartbreaking performances by the actors.

This terrifying work of Seneca, on account of his exceedingly hideous narrative it was not played for many years at the theatre. Ilias Malandris first dealt with him in the winter of 2021 for her radio ERTwith the same actors and presented it theatrically in this form this year.

In an informative introductory speech, Prof. Pan. Anna Mavroleon introduced the audience to the study that dictated the manner of performance, which all the actors gave, and the leading dramatist Gonda Van Steen in one online connection commented on the transfer of ancient drama to the Roman theater. The event was filmed for public television.