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Introduzione ovvero ‘Ifigenia in Aulide’ tra cerchietti e parentesi
2017
The contribution is a brief introduction to the workshop “Ifigenia in Aulide di Euripide. Testo, Interpretazione, Drammaturgia, ieri e oggi”, held in Palermo on April 7, 2016, whose intent is here motivated. The meeting pivoted on the idea that a tragedy as IA, burdened with serious textual problems – as evidenced by the latest editions by James Diggle (OCT) and David Kovacs (Loeb) –, may be a good basis for a methodological reassessment, within which textual criticism may interact with interpretative problems and dramaturgical performances, concerning either the time when theatrical representations were performed and their numerous rewritings. The paper also briefly summarizes the content …
Violenza sacrificale e disturbi della comunicazione nella Ifigenia in Aulide
2013
The article focuses on the verbal and visual communication disorders in Iphigeneia at Aulis by Euripides. The aim is to show that the alteration of looks and words is directly related to the impending sacrificial violence. And that, therefore, the violence is the cause of the interrupted communication between the characters of the tragedy.
Guerra, politica e funzione poetica tra Troiane e Ifigenia in Aulide
2017
This essay aims to highlight the inherent political significance that can be attributed to The Trojan Women through a comparison with Iphigenia at Aulis starting from the representation of the death of two innocent victims. The death of Astyanax, who seals the destruction of Troy and whose violence is explicitly displayed, shows a political meaning that is clear and unequivocal, whereas the representation of the sacrifice of Iphigenia, an early act of the expedition, is ambiguous and politically uncommitted. From the mythical paradigm of the Trojan War, a system of signs that can be remodelled and reutilized in different ways, we can find out about the critical attitude of Euripides towards…