“You have vast power,” observes one of the shrewd-but-twisted souls in Lucius Annaeus Seneca’s “Thyestes,” “if you can manage without power.” Ay, there’s the rub ...

This opening scene ends with Atreus and Thyestes killing their half-brother, Chrysippus. This actually happens before the start of Seneca's play, with the brothers being banished by their father ...

Thyestes, generous, benevolent ruler, beloved of the people, is ousted when his predilection for seducing the young virgins of the court comes to light. He and Aerope are exiled in the forest ...

Siegemaster put up a tremendous weight-carrying performance to land the showpiece Connolly's Red Mills Thyestes Chase at Gowran Park. The Dessie Hughes-trained 10-year-old (16-1) was nursed into ...