A Pericles Prosôpon in Attic Tragedy?

1975; University of Lisbon; Volume: 7; Linguagem: Inglês

10.1484/j.euphr.5.127062

ISSN

2736-3082

Autores

Anthony J. Podlecki,

Tópico(s)

Historical, Religious, and Philosophical Studies

Resumo

Scholars in modern times have seen Pericles lurking behind the tragic masks of Aeschylus’ Eteocles or Orestes or Zeus, and Sophocles’ Creon or Oedipus. All these identifications are for one reason or another implausible. It is suggested here instead that Euripides may have modelled his Theseus in Supplices on the lately deceased, now all-but-sanctified Pericles, perhaps taking his lead from Aristophanes’ too lifelike portrayal of Cleon as the Paphlagonian slave in Equites.

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