In one of the central scenes of Aeschylus' Choephori, Orestes enacts a peculiar kind of "peira" on her mother Clytaemestra: the paper analyses the relationship of this scene both with its mythical background and with the motif of the homecomer's tale in archaic and Classical Greek poetry. Also included are relevant references to Homeric scholia, to Sophocles' Electra and to modern developments of the mythical pattern.
Shocks, lies and matricide: some thoughts on Aesch. Cho. 653-718
PONTANI, Filippomaria
2007-01-01
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In one of the central scenes of Aeschylus' Choephori, Orestes enacts a peculiar kind of "peira" on her mother Clytaemestra: the paper analyses the relationship of this scene both with its mythical background and with the motif of the homecomer's tale in archaic and Classical Greek poetry. Also included are relevant references to Homeric scholia, to Sophocles' Electra and to modern developments of the mythical pattern.File in questo prodotto:
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