Myth, narrative and audience in the monologue of Jocasta (Eur. Phoen. vv. 1-87)

  • Evandro Luis Salvador UNICAMP
Keywords: tragedy, Euripides, The Phoenician Women, Jocasta, myth, audience.

Abstract

This paper analyses the monologue of Jocasta (vv.1-87) on the prologue of Euripides’ The Phoenician Women. I will discuss Jocasta’s point of view about the myth of the Labdacids and how this monologue recovers some elements that are already known by the Athens audience from V B.C., which provokes and maintain a state of dramatic tension in that same audience.

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Evandro Luis Salvador, UNICAMP
Departamento de Linguística

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Salvador E. L. (2011). Myth, narrative and audience in the monologue of Jocasta (Eur. Phoen. vv. 1-87). Cuadernos de Filología Clásica. Estudios griegos e indoeuropeos, 21, 135-145. https://doi.org/10.5209/rev_CFCG.2011.v21.7
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