 Thyestes (Seneca)

Thyestes is a first century AD "fabula crepidata" (Roman tragedy with Greek subject) of approximately 1112 lines of verse by Lucius Annaeus Seneca, which tells the story of Thyestes, who unwittingly ate his own children who were slaughtered and served at a banquet by his brother Atreus.As with most of Seneca's plays, "Thyestes" is based upon an older Greek version with the same name by Euripides.