From Control of Emotions to Execution of Revenge: Female Anger in Sophocles' Tereus (Frr. 583; 589 R)
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The aim of this paper is to analyze the emotions in fragments 583 (+ POxy 5292) and 589 R of Sophocles' Tereus. Both fragments are preserved in the Anthologion of Stobeus and we are interested in understanding them in their double valence: on the one hand, stripped of the context of the drama and inserted in the internal logic created by the anthologist, they function as maxims, with generalizing value; on the other hand, they have a particular value as surviving parts of a lost play and provide information about its plot, some of the characters involved in it, the emotions that run through them and the language used, among other aspects. The fragments we have selected for our analysis refer to the behavior of the female characters in this tragedy and give an account of their emotional experience -a subject that concerns us in particular- in relation to the events that occur or are described. First, we will summarize the proposals about the reconstruction of the plot of Tereus, from the surviving sources of this tragedy, to continue with the analysis of its conservation and conclude with the study of emotions in the two fragments that we have selected to explore in this article.
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