Abstract
The story of Iphigenia, an absolutely innocent victim, has been present
for millennia in many expressions of civilization and represents
a warning for history: she is sacrificed to propitiate a war and is also
the priestess of a goddess in a foreign land. Here she suffers from the
distance from her homeland and the loneliness of her loved ones. Her
desire to return to Greece is thwarted by the impossibility of returning,
by its constant postponement. For Hauptmann, Iphigenia continues to
die in addition to the first sacrifice wanted by her father and despite
being saved by the goddess because she cannot return to her homeland:
her return would reveal the fiction of the sacrifice and would
be covered with infamy. Even Ritsos’ tragedy, in which the return to
Argos is described in detail, ends with incommunicability and silence,
which in turn become the specific features of the notion of tragic.
| Translated title of the contribution | [Autom. eng. transl.] The non-return of Iphigenia. Euripides and Ritsos |
|---|---|
| Original language | Italian |
| Title of host publication | L'interno e l'esterno. Studi per Sandro Mancini |
| Editors | A Pugliese, S Jurga, F. Mazzocchio |
| Pages | 561-572 |
| Number of pages | 12 |
| Publication status | Published - 2022 |
Keywords
- Euripides
- Hauptmann
- Iphigenia
- Return
- Ritsos