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Drammaturgia dell’inganno. Sull’agguato a Lico nell’Antiope di Euripide (e altri agguati euripidei)
Di Bello, Michele
2025
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2464-8760
Abstract
This article reconsiders the available evidence concerning the ambush in Euripides’ Antiope, in which King Lycus almost falls victim to the twin sons of the play’s eponymous heroine, with the aim of clarifying how this episode may have unfolded. By examining parallel situations in extant Euripidean tragedy (notably Hecuba and Electra) and drawing on some ancient scholarly sources such as the narrative hypotheseis of Euripides’ dramas, this study seeks to strengthen on dramaturgical grounds the hypothesis that: 1) the twins lured the king from Thebes to Eleutherae with a false promise; 2) to achieve this, they made use of an intermediary character, possibly the Herdsman who had found and raised them.
L’articolo riesamina i dati disponibili sull’agguato che il re Lico subisce nell’Antiope di Euripide per mano dei due gemelli figli della protagonista eponima, con l’intento di precisare la possibile articolazione drammaturgica dell’inganno. Il confronto di questo dramma perduto con alcune situazioni analoghe nel teatro euripideo conservato (specialmente in Ecuba ed Elettra) e con alcuni testi eruditi antichi come le hypotheseis narrative dei drammi di Euripide, mira a rafforzare l’ipotesi che: 1) i gemelli abbiano mandato a chiamare il re da Tebe a Eleutere adescandolo con una falsa promessa; 2) per questo scopo essi si siano serviti di un intermediario, forse il Boukolos che li aveva trovati e allevati.
This article reconsiders the available evidence concerning the ambush in Euripides’ Antiope, in which King Lycus almost falls victim to the twin sons of the play’s eponymous heroine, with the aim of clarifying how this episode may have unfolded. By examining parallel situations in extant Euripidean tragedy (notably Hecuba and Electra) and drawing on some ancient scholarly sources such as the narrative hypotheseis of Euripides’ dramas, this study seeks to strengthen on dramaturgical grounds the hypothesis that: 1) the twins lured the king from Thebes to Eleutherae with a false promise; 2) to achieve this, they made use of an intermediary character, possibly the Herdsman who had found and raised them.
Publisher
EUT Edizioni Università di Trieste
Source
Michele Di Bello, "Drammaturgia dell’inganno. Sull’agguato a Lico nell’Antiope di Euripide (e altri agguati euripidei)" in: "Incontri di filologia classica XXIV (2024-2025)", EUT Edizioni Università di Trieste, Trieste, 2025, pp. 1-17
Languages
it
Rights
Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International
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