Plot-makers in Euripides’ Ion

  • Vasileios Dimoglidis University of Cincinnati
Palavras-chave: Metapoetry, plot-makers, plot-making, poet’s double, Euripides, Ion

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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 the various deviations (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 finally Euripides himself assumes.

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2022-03-02
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Dimoglidis, V. (2022). Plot-makers in Euripides’ Ion. Cuadernos de Filología Clásica. Estudios griegos e indoeuropeos, 32, 115-134. https://doi.org/10.5209/cfcg.77616
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