Ares y Dionisos: Discurso político y poesía trágica en Fenicias de Eurípides
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In this paper, we read Euripides’ Phoenissae as a metadramatic reflection which is developed through the opposition of two semantic fields: on the one hand, war and eris, political power, individual interest and public discourse associated to “sophistic” practices; on the other hand, peace and concord among members of the community; philia bonds, colective well-being and choral mousikÄ“, which in turn are subject of self-referential passages. Through this opposition, we propose that the play poses a critique to the political and military situation faced by Athens between 411 and 409 b.C, and, at the same time, it develops a meta-dramatic reflection about the social function of tragic poetry, opposing it to the new kinds of discourses which, taught by the sophists, prevail in Athenian public sphere.
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