The chorus of Choephori: to feed revenge and share remorse

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Published: Jun 12, 2020
DOI: https://doi.org/10.24215/1851779Xe076

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Maria de Fátima Silva
Centro de Estudos Clássicos e Humanísticos. Universidade de Coimbra
https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5356-8386

Abstract

The chorus of Choephori has been considered as an example of a most active intervention in Aeschylus' theatre. First of all, their participation in the kommós, together with Agamemnon's descendants, is decisive for the awareness and realization of revenge. But even when the action implies the protagonism of the avenger, Orestes, and the chorus becomes above all a commentator, the successive stasima are a kind of mirror of each stage of the difficult process of matricide. Until remorse sets in, after a crime so desired, but so unbearable...

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Silva, M. de F. (2020). The chorus of Choephori: to feed revenge and share remorse. Synthesis, 27(1), e076. https://doi.org/10.24215/1851779Xe076
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Vol. 27 No. 1 (2020)
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Dossier: Lecturas corales. Esquilo

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Author Biography

Maria de Fátima Silva, Centro de Estudos Clássicos e Humanísticos. Universidade de Coimbra

Professora Catedrática no Instituto de Estudos Clássicos da Faculdade de Letras da Universidade de Coimbra, Portugal. Como docente e investigadora tem-se dedicado sobretudo à Língua e Literatura Grega, particularmente ao teatro -trágico e cómico-, à historiografia e aos estudos de recepção. É ainda tradutora para português de vários autores, como Aristófanes, Menandro, Heródoto, Aristóteles, Teofrasto, Cáriton. Entre os títulos dedicados ao teatro grego, pode citar-se Crítica do Teatro na Comédia Antiga (1997), Ensaios sobre Eurípides (2005), Ensaios sobre Aristófanes (2007), Ésquilo, o primeiro dramaturgo europeu (2005). No âmbito dos estudos de recepção, coordenou e colaborou nos volumes seguintes: Furor. Ensaios sobre a obra dramática de Hélia Correia (2006), Ensaios sobre Mário de Carvalho (2012), Portrayals of Antigone in Portugal. 20th and 21st Century rewritings of the Antigone myth. Leiden, Brill (2017), Portraits of Medea in Portugal during the 20th and 21st centuries. Leiden, Brill (2018). Recebeu o prémio da “Investigação Científica Internacional” atribuído pela Faculdade de Letras de Coimbra (2017).

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