1. Les prologues d’Iphigénie en Tauride, Hélène, Les Phéniciennes et Oreste : un adieu liminaire aux mythes ?
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Lucie Thévenet
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Euripides ,myth ,prologue ,self-presentation ,identity ,Social Sciences - Abstract
Euripides’ relation to mythology and its polyphony is being visibly questioned in the prologues of a group of plays dating from the end of his career: Iphigenia in Tauris, Helen, Phoenician Women and Orestes. In each, a female character sets out in a monologue the elements necessary for her own identification and for the understanding of the action in the plot imagined by the author. However, she does this only after a certain amount of time has elapsed, while also establishing a striking degree of distance from what we might call her familial inheritance. Thus, Euripides uses the character’s voice to develop a strategy that puts into question both the characters’ link to their familial history and the playwright’s link to his mythological inheritance, as if he were entrusting his characters with the task of announcing right from the prologue the degree of critical distance that must be maintained from the mythical tradition.
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- 2019
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