Some of Seneca's stories that originated from the Greeks like Agamemnon and Thyestes which dealt with bloody family histories and revenge captivated the Elizabethans. ... For the dramatists of Renaissance Italy, France and England, classical tragedy meant only the ten Latin plays of Seneca and not Euripides, Aeschylus and Sophocles. ...

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Klassen provides an example of this thirst for vengeance when he quotes Agamemnon stating, "No; we are not going to leave a single one of them alive, down to the babies in their mothers" wombs- not even they must live. ... Between 524-406 B.C.E., three poets (Aeschylus, Sophocles, and Euripides) arose and profoundly spoke against the wages of war and violence. ...

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