Ancient Tragedy and the Metaphor of Katharsis
2002; Johns Hopkins University Press; Volume: 54; Issue: 1 Linguagem: Inglês
10.1353/tj.2002.0008
ISSN1086-332X
Autores Tópico(s)Language, Metaphor, and Cognition
ResumoThe chorus of Euripides' Medea, first performed in the fifth century BCE in Athens, responds to the central character Medea's plans to poison her rival with a famous example of the rhetorical topos of adynaton, "the impossible." Women, notorious for deceit, have always been victims of ill-fame, but now it is men, like Jason, the barbarian Medea's Greek husband, whose pledges cannot be trusted. The chorus exults:
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