ΠΟΛΥΣΙΝΗΣ ΚΥΩΝ: Electra, Coéforas y la construcción del estatus femenino en la Orestía
Choephoroe’s Electra has not been thoroughly studied by scholars, who have been instead focused on comparing her to namesake heroines by Sophocles and Euripides in order to show the differences and similarities between them, and to determine whether her character is essential for the piece’s dramati...
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Instituto de Lenguas y Literaturas Clásicas
2019
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| Acceso en línea: | https://revistas.uncu.edu.ar/ojs3/index.php/revistaestudiosclasicos/article/view/2200 |
| Sumario: | Choephoroe’s Electra has not been thoroughly studied by scholars, who have been instead focused on comparing her to namesake heroines by Sophocles and Euripides in order to show the differences and similarities between them, and to determine whether her character is essential for the piece’s dramatic structure and can therefore be considered autonomous. This paper intends to answer why she is included in the trilogy. After tracing pre-Aeschylean sources and analyzing from a gender perspective the ambiguous traits defining her as a female subject, we will hypothesize that Electra’s presence cannot be explained by dramatic reasons but ideological and structural ones. Agamemnon’s daughter provides the spectator with a true role model "’one acceptable to the polis"’ which offsets the "anomalous" image of women in the trilogy and semantically anticipates Athena’s appearance in Eumenides. |
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