Abstract
From the earliest literary documents, Mnemosyne is represented with two
faces, one looking to the past and the other to the future: the same symbolic
and mythical figure presides over the revelation and preservation of what has
happened as well as its conservation in the memory of posterity. Within Attic
tragedy, this dual function is clearly perceptible in Euripides, to a much greater
extent than in Aeschylus and Sophocles. The aim of this paper is to illustrate
the different developments of these themes (e.g. positive and negative effects
of mmeme/ lathe kakon, survive in the memory of posterity as a reward of
the suffering endured by the tragic hero, echoes from other literary genres such
as epinikion, enkomion, funeral oratory, etc.).
Titolo tradotto del contributo | [Autom. eng. transl.] The consolations of memory (and oblivion): declinations of a theme in the Euripideo theater |
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Lingua originale | Italian |
Titolo della pubblicazione ospite | Quattro incontri sulla Cultura Classica. Dal Bimillenario della morte di Augusto all’insegnamento delle lingue classiche |
Pagine | 445-468 |
Numero di pagine | 24 |
Volume | I quaderni di Atene e Roma, 6 |
Stato di pubblicazione | Pubblicato - 2019 |
Keywords
- Euripides