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- Title
El fratricidio: antecedentes épicos y derivaciones trágicas de un tópico resemantizado en la figura del exilio edípico en Fenicias de Eurípides.
- Authors
ALFONZO, Bruno D.
- Abstract
The following work deals with fratricide as a topic in Western culture and its role in literature from the different approaches in modern times. The paper focuses on the delimitation of the topic within Greek literature through the evolution of Oedipus' offspring', from Archaic Greek epic to tragedy. Thus, it starts contrasting the mythical elements that both, epic and tragedy, display as a support of each story. My hypothesis is fratricide of Eteocles and Polynices becomes a punishment to Oedipus through his exile, and that its consummation is in Euripides' Phoenissae, which I conclude through a comparative study of the sources.
- Subjects
FRATRICIDE; OEDIPUS (Greek mythology); EURIPIDES, ca. 480 B.C.-406 B.C.; PHOENICIAN Women (Play : Euripides); ETEOCLES, King of Thebes (Mythological character); EXILE (Punishment); GREEK literature; GREEK tragedy
- Publication
Nova Tellus, 2021, Vol 39, Issue 1, p45
- ISSN
0185-3058
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.19130/iifl.nt.2021.39.1.27543