The Bipartite Structure of Euripides' Orestes and the Enigmatic Speech
Abstract
Euripides divides Orestes in two parts around the mechanema, in such a way that the second one implies a reinterpretation of the first one. To this structure it is superimposed a chronological inverse sequence, which implies at the same time a reelaboration, also inversed, of Aeschylus’ Oresteia. In that reelaboration the scene with the phrygian has a essential and not always understood role. The comparison of this scene with that one, in which Cassandra in Aeschylus’ Agammenon plays the leading role, leads to a interesting reflection about matters related to the compositive technique.
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