Fenicias de Eurí­pides: Concepción agonal de espacio y tiempo en prólogo y párodos (vv.1-260)

Abstract

In ‘Phoenician Women’ it is interesting to point out the substantial changes that Euripides introduced to the treatment of the myth in his traditional versions (Seven against Thebes by Aeschylus, Oedipus the King by Sophocles). In a singular manner, in the literary-philological analysis of the prologue and párodos it does depict an evident integration of theatrical times and spaces and the assembly of the limits between ´the foreign ´ and ´the self ´.
We will try to show that the temporal-space design of the prologues and párodos builds a chance of agón at the spatial level that gives evidence to the outline of the characters in Yocasta, Antigone and in the Pedagogue in the prologue and the Phoenician women in the párodos. Furthermore, the confrontation between the foreign and the self is also agonistic, already mentioned, is a characteristic of the theatrical Euripidean composition, according to communicative realities of the time of the representation of the tragedy and the poetic proposal of its author.