Announcing misfortune: the concept of áte and the chorus in the tragedy of Aeschylus

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Published: Jun 12, 2020
DOI: https://doi.org/10.24215/1851779Xe071
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Aeschylus Tragedy Chorus ἄτη

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Marco Aurélio Rodrigues
Universidade Federal do Amapá
http://orcid.org/0000-0001-6104-227X

Abstract

The chorus in Greek tragedy has always been considered an important element of dramatic composition. Also, especially in the esquilian period, it was one of the essential parts of the representation, manifesting itself as the voice of the people who revealed and inquired the characters about the events, the information and the situations that happened before him. In Aeschylus, particularly, the chorus plays a curious role, as it is also responsible for citing, in most instances of all the author's remaining tragedies, the concept of áte, whose definition ranges from a mere clouding of ideas to even the consummate misfortune itself. Thus, the present paper, supported above all by the ideas proposed by Doyle (1984), analyzes some passages in which this fact occurs and, in addition, the possible movements that make a complex notion of Greek thought appear more often in the lyrical parts of tragedies.

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Rodrigues, M. A. (2020). Announcing misfortune: the concept of áte and the chorus in the tragedy of Aeschylus. Synthesis, 27(1), e071. https://doi.org/10.24215/1851779Xe071
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Vol. 27 No. 1 (2020)
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Dossier: Lecturas corales. Esquilo

This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International  (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/deed.es).

Author Biography

Marco Aurélio Rodrigues, Universidade Federal do Amapá

Doutor em Estudos Clássicos (Mundo Antigo) pela Faculdade de Letras da Universidade de Coimbra, Portugal, e Doutor em Estudos Literários (Teorias e Crítica do Drama) pela Faculdade de Ciências e Letras da UNESP, de Araraquara, São Paulo, Brasil. Sua tese de doutorado, Um conceito plural: a ἄτη na tragédia grega, obteve a aprovação das Universidades com distinção e louvor. Durante o doutorado, foi o único aluno selecionado para representar a Universidade de Coimbra no 2nd Summer School, realizado pelo The European Network of Research and Documentation of Performances of Ancient Greek Drama (Arc-Net). Atualmente, é docente da área de Estudos Clássicos (Linguística, Filologia Românica e Latim) da Universidade Federal do Amapá–UNIFAP (Campus Santana), membro do grupo de Pesquisa NUPEL (Núcleo de Pesquisa em Estudos Literários) e Líder do Grupo de Pesquisas GEDA (Grupo de Estudos Dramáticos na Amazônia). Seu Pós-Doutorado (2017) centrou-se nos estudos de performance do teatro antigo do Grupo de Leituras Dramatizadas Giz-en-Scène. Trabalha com estudos relacionados à performance da antiguidade clássica na modernidade e seu atual projeto de pesquisa analisa, pelo viés pós-colonialista, as representações do teatro clássico nas regiões Norte e Nordeste, do Brasil, além, também, das Guianas e do Suriname.

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