Series | Lexis Supplements
Volume 14 | Edited book | METra 2

METra 2

Epic and Greek Tragedy: A Mapping

open access | peer reviewed

edited by

Andrea Rodighiero - Università degli Studi di Verona, Italia - email
Anna Maganuco - Università degli Studi di Verona, Italia - email
Margherita Nimis - Università degli Studi di Verona, Italia - email
Giacomo Scavello - Utrecht University, Netherlands - email

Abstract
The volume represents the second ‘chapter’ of the METra research project (Mapping Epic in Tragedy – Epica e tragedia greca: una mappatura), and contains the papers presented during the international workshop METra 2, held in Verona in June 2022. Carrying on with the lines of research whose first results were published in METra 1 (Lexis Supplements 11, 2022), this second collection of essays focuses on further aspects of the Homeric legacy in Attic tragedy. As in the first volume, the papers apply different disciplinary approaches, covering a wide range of topics: from metrical, linguistic, and stylistic features to matters of intertextuality and literary allusiveness, from the cultural, religious, and ethical values of archaic Greece – and their persistence in the classical age – to the ‘dialogue’ between ancient epics and modernity.

Keywords Aeschylus • Gods • Funeral lament • God’s will • Aeschylus’ Libation Bearers • Andromache • Tragedy and polis • Homeric poems • Ancient Greek Thought • Funeral ideology • Dactylo-epitrites • Dactyls • Ajax • Anapaests • War • Persians • Epics • Fragments • Dialogue • Homer • Trojan Women • Lyric Poetry • Autocitation • Epic language • Funeral rite • Greek tragedy • Performance • Ulysses • Iliad • Odyssey • τις-Rede • Parodos • Aristocratic ideology • Greek prayers • Sophocles • Modern epic • Tragic formularity • Hecuba • Metaphor • Drama • Attic tragedy • Nikos Kazantzakis • Epic lexicon • Helen • Reciprocity • Ethics • Athena’s name • Euripides • Kunstsprache • Agency • Oratio recta • Intertextuality

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