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- Title
Plot-makers in Euripides' Ion.
- Authors
Dimoglidis, Vasileios
- Abstract
The aim of this paper is to examine the plot-makers in Euripides' Ion, focusing in this way on an aspect of the Euripidean metapoetry. Ion's four characters (Apollo, Xuthus, Creusa, and Ion) are transformed into plot-makers, with each of them trying to compose a plot. I have suggested that Apollo is the poet's double, and thus his plot echoes that of Euripides. The fact that, despite various deviations (that is, unsuccessful sub-plots), the plot is redirected every single time to the god's original plot, credits Apollo with the title of a successful theatrical writer (internal playwright), a title that Euripides himself assumes.
- Subjects
NEGOTIABLE instruments; IONS
- Publication
Cuadernos de Filología Clásica: Estudios Griegos e Indoeuropeos, 2022, Vol 32, p115
- ISSN
1131-9070
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.5209/cfcg.77616