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El primer discurso de mensajero de Ifigenia entre los tauros , una pequeña Ilíada

2017; University of Lisbon; Volume: 45; Linguagem: Inglês

10.1484/j.euphr.5.125178

2736-3082

Lorena Jiménez Justicia,

Organic Chemistry Synthesis Methods

In Iphigenia in Tauris’ first messenger-speech (vv. 236-339), a shepherd narrates a battle between the Taurians shepherds and the Greek heroes Orestes and Pilades. In this context this article aims to demonstrate that Euripides is inspired by Sophocles’ Ajax and by the battle scenes of the Iliad. However, unlike in Ajax and in the Iliad, Euripides’ intention is not tragic but comic, thus showing the peculiar situation of the hero Orestes.