By Poulheria Kyriakou, Antonios Rengakos
The amount throws clean gentle on an immense polarity in Euripidean drama, together with its roots within the culture and its reception in vase-painting and literature. nearly all Euripidean characters are topic to folly and declare a few degree of knowledge. prime overseas students talk about the polarity and the performs' ambiguities from numerous angles and theoretical views, supplying trenchant insights into ethical, social and ancient matters.
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Etc. Without irritation, Euripides’ art would have been in the service of a plain didacticism that affirmed the social and religious organization of the polis. Euripides’ tragedy avoids this by turning for its irritations mainly to the intellectual tradition that in Greek culture included transmitted “counter-discourses” to the fundamental ordering views about men and gods or promoted and developed them anew with the Presocratics and Sophists. In Bacchae it exploits the conflict potential that results from the recognition that the Greek concept of the gods is an extrapolation from concepts about men.
In Aeschylus, the obscurity of Zeus’s plans for mortals seems to relate to his superior mind: it is his πραπίδεϲ which form an entangled forest impenetrable to human sight (Supp. 86 – 7, 93 – 5). The wisdom of Athene is connected with that of Zeus: he has granted her φρονεῖν…οὐ κακῶϲ, though she politely, and wisely, claims to be less wise than her elders the Erinyes (Eum. 848 – 50; κάρτ’ ἐμοῦ ϲοφωτέρα; cf. them to her at 431 τῶν ϲοφῶν γὰρ οὐ πένηι). One can see how Athene has come to attain this quality, in part through her original association with crafts, but also through her wider intelligence, as in the Odyssey.
Lefkowitz . See Sansone . So far unsurpassed is Elsberger . Poet. , a – : “An example of an unnecessarily bad character is Menelaus in Orestes”, cf. Poet. , b – . I assume with Cilliers (among others against Porter , n. ) that Aristotle refers to the role as a whole rather than Or. – . I summarize here the conclusions of my paper, cited in n. above, and develop them further. Fundamental for the understanding of Orestes remains the paper of Reinhardt (first ), developed by Burkert .
