Search results for "Euripides"
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Eurípides, Helena 435-482. Elementos conversacionales, humor y guiños aristofánicos en una tragedia
2010
En este artículo el autor trata de estudiar en detalle los elementos conversacionales de un conocido pasaje de la Helena de Eurípides, su connatural asiento en la dicción de la tragedia, su interacción con algunos elementos humorísticos, los problemas que esto plantea y la ponderación de todo ello con una visión ecléctica. Se llega a la conclusión de que Eurípides introduce humor y guiños a la Comedia aristofánica en este caso y que, gracias a su talento dramático, no desvirtúa la esencia de la tragedia. This paper deals with a detailed study of conversational idioms in a well-known scene of Euripides’ Helen, their connatural place in the diction of tragedy, their interaction with some humo…
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 …
Travestirsi per Dioniso
2020
Starting from the definition of “performativity” and “gender parody” developed by Judith Butler, this paper aims to investigate the performative functions of male cross-dressing within the dynamics of social categorization in classical Athens. For this purpose I have adopted an eclectic hermeneutic toolbox, borrowing elements from Harvey Sacks’ Membership Categorization Analysis to René Girard’s scapegoat theory. Through the philological analysis of some literary representations of transvestism, such as Pentheus’ cross-dressing in Euripides’ "Bacchae", and the anthropological interpretation of the mythical-ritual complex relating to the effeminacy of Dionysus, my work focuses on the polyval…
E. Rh. 686 ἀλλὰ: una cuestión sintáctica
2012
La adición de en E. Rh. 686, propuesta por Dindorf y adoptada por Diggle, ofrece una interpretación más coherente de este verso no solo en términos sintácticos sino también con respecto a la acción dramática y teatral. The addition of in E. Rh. 686 proposed by Dindorf and adopted by Diggle offers a more coherent interpretation of this line not only in syntactics terms but also in respect of the dramatic and theatrical action.
Il monologo di Medea (Eurip. Med. 1056-1080) e le altre Medee dell'antichità (con un'appendice su Carcino)
2013
De súplica a pseudo-debate: Helena 894 ss.
2021
En Helena la pareja Helena y Menelao deben suplicar a Teónoe que no informe a su hermano Teoclímeno de la presencia de Menelao en Egipto, pero Menelao se niega a hacerlo y adopta una actitud diferente. Este rito de súplica truncado se transforma en un supuesto debate, que tampoco lo es.
Il Dioniso delle "Baccanti" e i "piegatori di pini". Polivalenza di un'immagine leggendaria
2021
This paper investigates the mythical and ritual background of Dionysus’ representation as “fir-bender” in Euripides’ "Bacchae" (ll. 1061 ff.), in an attempt to shed light not only on the dramaturgical aspects of the tragic plot, but also on the cultural categories that make this representation intelligible to the Athenian audience at the end of the fifth century BC. Following Louis Gernet’s historical-anthropological approach based on the notion of "polyvalence des images", this paper aims to define a mythical pattern – the connection between the bending of a tree and the dismemberment of a human victim – already attested in the Attic legend of Theseus and Sinis, in which both characters se…
I doni di Medea. Tra reciprocità e vendetta
2019
Qual è la funzione dei doni nella storia di Medea, e che cosa ci comunicano? Attraverso di essi Medea sembra in grado di costruire relazioni e, all’opposto, di vendicarsi sui suoi nemici. È sulla base dei doni che interpreta offese e vendetta come inversioni dei meccanismi di reciprocità positiva in cui è calata. Partendo dunque dall’assunto che Medea sia, innanzitutto, una “donatrice al femminile”, il contributo esamina le più rilevanti rappresentazioni della sua storia mitica alla luce della categoria del dono. Pertanto, nella prima parte (“i doni per Giasone”) si presterà particolare attenzione alle “Medee” di Pindaro, Apollonio Rodio, Ovidio e Valerio Flacco, senza tralasciare le …
Sirene nell'Ade. L'aulo, la lira e il lutto
2016
Although music might seem to have nothing to do with death and the grief caused by it (to ban any music making from one’s house is a distinctive feature of mourning), yet dirges (threnoi) bestow upon the deceased both praise and the possibility to be remembered, and soothe the grief of his family and friends, and of the community as a whole. Thus the living accompany the soul of the dead in its descent to the Underworld by means of music, that seems to be the last connection with life. On a mythical-religious level, such an accompaniment is brought about by the Sirens, prayed by Helen so that they could join her in mourning the loss of the many warriors who have died because of her (Eur. He…
Metamorphoses of Shamed Bodies : Sexual Violence in Euripides’s Helen
2021
In this paper I explore the connections between shame and embodiment in Euripides’s play Helen. The paper focuses on the play’s underlying theme of sexual violence and rape, and on the descriptions of metamorphoses that the mythological female victims often undergo in the face of rape. In my analysis on shame and embodiment I apply two insights from Giorgio Agamben’s analysis of the phenomenon of victim shame in The Remnants of Auschwitz. These are, first, the definition according to which shame is “to be consigned to what cannot be assumed”—that is, to be consigned to one’s self, being and physical body—and second, the claim that in shame one is affected by one’s own (bodily) passivity. Bu…