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Disumano, troppo umano. La maschera del tiranno e l’antropologia dei filosofi (da Sofocle a Seneca)
2019
Tyranny is often regarded as "a perennial problem" (Boesche 1996) on the basis of its ubiquitous presence in literature. Even more enduring is the problem of how to define human nature, its place in the environment, and its relationship to the divine – a core issue of philosophical anthropology (Pansera 2001, Honenberger 2015). In the present paper, I shall approach the literary construction of the tyrant figure in Greek and Roman tragedy from the holistic perspective of philosophical anthropology. I will focus on three well-known dramas (Sophocles’ Oedipus the King and Antigone and Seneca’s Thyestes) which put great emphasis on the moral and cognitive status of tyrants as “exceptional” hum…
Euripides’Andromache, a Choral Tragedy
2013
Andrómaca es una tragedia coral por diversas razones: por el papel tan singular que el coro desempeña en ella desde el comienzo mismo; y porque en ella, a través de dos mujeres enfrentadas, Andrómaca y Hermíone, convergen en la trama dramática una serie de parejas/tríos que marcan el discurrir de unas sagas épico-dramáticas de gran rendimiento en la tradición cultural y literaria griega. Es también una tragedia coral porque en ella se alcanza el destino fi nal de las dos partes implicadas en la mayor guerra mítica de la Antigüedad. Andromache is a choral tragedy because the singular role of the chorus in the whole play and because in its plot there is a group of couples/trios, which lead th…