The myth of Iphigenia according to Renaissance writers in favor of women
Abstract
The myth of Iphigenia has been reinterpreted with extraordinary vitality in a multitude of literary and artistic works throughout the history. This article intends to examine the large repercussion of Iphigenia in the debate on the Querelle des femmes from the recovery of the manuscript of Euripides' tragedy at the end of the s. XV, in authors such as Galeazzo Flavio Capra (Capella), Ludovico Dolce or Lilio Gregorio Giraldi. The reception of this Greek tragedy from Italy, when poured into dramas and treatises, irradiated in modern European culture new emblems about the feminine condition, towards a model of virtue whose morality exceeds the cruelty of gods and men, because it fights for its own freedom and dignity.
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