Pandataria and there slain. The Chorus sings regarding popular favor, which has been destructive to so many, and after that tells of the hard fates which have befallen the Julio-Claudian dynasty. References Editions Otto Zwierlein (ed.), Seneca Tragoedia (Oxford: Clarendon Press: Oxford Classical Texts: 1986) Octavia: A Play attributed to Seneca, ed. Rolando Ferri (Cambridge Classical Texts and Commentaries No.41, Cambridge UP, 2003) John G. Fitch Tragedies, Volume II: Oedipus. Agamemnon. Thyestes. Hercules on Oeta. Octavia (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press: Loeb Classical Library: 2004) Further reading F. L. Lucas, "'The Octavia', an essay," Classical Review, 35,5-6 (1921), 91-93 . P. Kragelund, Prophecy, Populism, and Propaganda in the "Octavia" (Copenhagen, 1982). T. Barnes, "The Date of the Octavia," MH, 39 (1982) 215–17. Harris, W.V., Restraining Rage: The Ideology of Anger Control in Classical Antiquity (Cambridge, Harvard University Press, 2001). T. P. Wiseman, "Octavia and the Phantom Genre," in Idem, Unwritten Rome (Exeter: University of Exeter Press, 2008). Girolamo Cardano 'Nero: An Exemplary Life' Inkstone, 2012. Lauren Donovan Ginsberg, Staging Memory, Staging Strife: Empire and Civil War in the 'Octavia' (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2017) External links Octavia—translated, with notes, by Watson Bradshaw 1st-century plays Plays set in the 1st century Plays set in ancient Rome Plays by Seneca the Younger Tragedy plays Cultural depictions of Nero 62 60s in the Roman Empire Cultural depictions of Seneca the Younger Cultural depictions of Claudia Octavia