Meditazioni omeriche sulla guerra nel terzo stasimo dell’Aiace di Sofocle, Ai. 1185-1222 (Homeric meditations on war in the third stasimon of Sophocles' Ajax, Ai. 1185-1222)
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2023-12-21
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Scavello, Giacomo
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Rodighiero, Andrea
Maganuco, Anna
Nimis, Margherita
Scavello, Giacomo
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The paper investigates the themes of war in Sophocles’ Ajax, with special attention to the neglected third stasimon. The meditation of the Chorus and its resolute condemnation of war shed new lights on some key themes of the tragedy such as hate, vengefulness and violence, and establishes a dialogue with Homer’s Iliad, both through the reworking of many epic idioms and a reflection on the human values opposing to war
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War, Dialogue, Anapaests, Greek tragedy, Ulysses, Attic tragedy, Epic lexicon, Metaphor, Nikos Kazantzakis, Funeral ideology, Oratio recta, Trojan Women, Funeral rite, Homeric poems, Dactylo-epitrites, Tragic, τις-Rede, Epic language, SDG 16 - Peace, Justice and Strong Institutions
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Scavello, G 2023, Meditazioni omeriche sulla guerra nel terzo stasimo dell’Aiace di Sofocle, Ai. 1185-1222 (Homeric meditations on war in the third stasimon of Sophocles' Ajax, Ai. 1185-1222). in A Rodighiero, A Maganuco, M Nimis & G Scavello (eds), METra 2 : Epica e tragedia greca: una mappatura. Edizioni Ca' Foscari, Venice, pp. 123-150. https://doi.org/10.30687/978-88-6969-738-8