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Le mediazione del coro nell’Andromaca di Euripide
No full textThe aim of this paper is to analyse the cantica of Euripides’ Andromache paying attention to the diπerent
ways of choral mediation. The choir tries to mediate in the conflict between Andromache and
Hermione, both victims of an anomalous conjugal situation caused by Neoptolemus inside the oikos.
Furthermore, the choir mediates between the present and the past, linking the sad events of Pthia
with the Trojan war. It is precisely the war, whose suπerings unite winners and losers, that seems to
be the unifying theme of a tragedy often accused of lacking a structural unity. Finally, the singers
mediate between diπerent poetic genres, when they sing an epinikion in honour of Peleo, shortly
before the sad news of Neptolemous’s death is unleashed upon the old hero. Through the analysis
of the cantica and, in particular, of the diπerent typologies of choral mediation, is possible to obtain
a deeper interpretation of the tragedy
La mediazione narrativa nella tragedia di Sofocle. Parte I. Conflitti impossibili, mediazioni necessarie. Parte II. Mediazioni impossibili, conflitti necessari
No full textThe first part of this study focuses on aspects of the dramatic construction of some tragedies of Sofocle (Women of Trachis, Electra, Philoctetes). In particular, it is intended to show how the Women of Trachis perform, the same type of dramaturgy as Electra and Philoctetes, that is the one in which the plot reaches the point of touching an unexpected outcome, threatening the integrity of large sections of the traditional mythical corpus, until a deus ex machina or another dramaturgical mechanism brings the story into the appropriate and well-known path.
The second part of the study focuses on Oedipus at Colonus and Ajax. It analyzes the problems which arise when a character’s attempt at mediation, in order to avert an impending catastrophe, clashes against the limits posed by the presence of fate and prophecy within the storyworld: when fate-bound elements are present, mediation may not be only ineffective, but also a priori impossible. In both cases the drama, prospecting nonexistent possibilities, conceals under an appearance of illusory freedom of action the aporetic nature of a storyworld in which events are predetermined
Le parole alate nel mezzo: variazioni epiche tra il duello e la xenia
No full textThe meeting with the other, the inequality, the zero-sum game, the dynamic medium, the border\ud
and the line of confrontation, the persuasion, and the role of women are among the concepts and\ud
practices that according to the book of Andrea Cozzo (2014) allow mediation in hostilities.\ud
The aim of this article is to examine the scenes of encounter in the epic between the violence of\ud
the duel (monomachia) and the hospitality (xenia). With the duel that can become hospitable memory\ud
and xenia that can turn into violence
Una scena di giudizio nello Scudo di Achille (Omero, Iliade 18, 497-508)
No full textThis paper discusses a passage from the Iliad (18, 497-508) which is the most ancient literary source of a trial scene. The information given in this short epic text is limited and problematic, and therefore the explanations and interpretations have always been much-debated and varied. In this paper the author puts forward another observation about the value and function of the individual words used to describe the legal proceedings (the causes of the dispute, the characters, the setting, the objects and the gestures), and also finds that the text evokes certain institutional, political, juridical and religious aspects of the early archaic polis
La distruzione di Selinunte in Diodoro Siculo: tra ideologia e storia
No full textThe paper deals with the destruction of Selinous by the Carthaginians in 409 B. C., told by Diodorus of Sicily in his Library of History, XIII book, chapters 54-59. This section is analyzed from the stylistic point of view (strongly pathetic tones, peculiar to the likely source, Timaeus), from the content point of view (bloody details of the siege) and from the ideological and anthropological point of view (the comparison between Greeks and barbarians, between oneself and ‘otherness’ in a border region). The Carthaginians are described by means of common themes of the Greek anti-barbaric propaganda (unintelligible language, savage behaviour, fierce war customs). However, this description - a product of the collective imagination, which has a strong ideological value - contradicts the Realien, the archaeological and epigraphic evidence, the trade relations, the sharing of places of worship, which demonstrate actual inter-ethnic relations and complex relational dynamics among Greeks, Carthaginians, and also Elymi, in western Sicily. The difference between literary and archaeological-epigraphic documents reflects the different interpretative models with which the Greeks portrayed their relationship with ‘otherness’
Un caso di epiploce: Aristofane, Vespe 1265-1274
No full textThe paper concerns the epiploke, the 'weave' of metres and rhythms in ancient Greek poetry. Some passages from the comments on Hephaestion's work, which are the main metrical sources regarding this topic, are presented; they explain the epiploke in relation to the origin of the metra prototypa and to their relationship. The phenomenon concerns not only the theory, but also the practice, as ancient lyric poetry testifies. A passage from Aristophanes' Wasps (vv. 1265- 1274) has been chosen as an example of a series of trochaic-iambic epiplokai, which form the entire poem: they have been handed down from the most ancient and reliable manuscripts. Mostly in the modern editions the colometry and the metrical-rhythmical structure of the poem have been changed: hence the epiplokai and the iambic cola disappeared
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Get PDFThe present study examines one of the fundamental aspects of author co-citation analysis (ACA) - the way co-citation
counts are defined. Co-citation counting provides the data on which all subsequent statistical analyses and mappings
are based, and we compare ACA results based on two different types of co-citation counting - the traditional type that
only counts the first one among a cited work's authors on the one hand and a non-traditional type that takes into
account the first 5 authors of a cited work on the other hand. Results indicate that the picture produced through this non-traditional author co-citation counting contains more coherent author groups and is therefore considerably clearer. However, this picture represents fewer specialties in the research field being studied than that produced through the traditional first-author co-citation counting when the same number of top-ranked authors is selected and analyzed. Reasons for these effects are discussed
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