La tragedia di Eschilo: testo, ipotesti, performance
Atti del Convegno Internazionale (Pisa, 1-2 ottobre 2025)
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- Enrico Medda - University of Pisa - email orcid profile
- Andrea Taddei - University of Pisa - email orcid profile
Abstract
The study of Aeschylus’ tragedy requires the integration of diverse and complex skills: textual criticism, literary criticism, performance studies, historical-anthropological approaches, and analysis of ancient and modern reception. The research group members of the 2022 PRIN project dedicated to Aeschylean tragedy some of these lines at the international conference held in Pisa on October 1-2, 2025, whose proceedings this volume collects. Among the topics addressed: the Aeschylean conception of language, various aspects of the Libation Bearers (Electra’s role and ritual texture of the first episode), a group of possibly Aeschylean adespota fragments, mythic geography in Prometheus Bound, metaphorical landscapes in the Suppliants, the link between Aeschylean diction and previous archaic lyric models, some typical Aeschylean figures of repetition, the development of Iphigenia’s character in the major tragedians. The interdisciplinary dialogue illuminates Aeschylus’ dramaturgical evolution, emphasizing intertextuality and performative staging.
Keywords Myth • Weaving as text • Electra • Body skills • Suppliant Women • Prometheus Bound • Fragmenta tragica adespota • Greek tragedy • Libation Bearers • Repetitions • Tragic lexicon • Voice and silences • Choral odes • Agamemnon • Landscape • Authorship • Solution of inner freezing through embodied emotio • Geographical descriptions • Other Aeschylean plays • Lyric poetry • Fragmentary tragedy • Vengeance • Performance • Costume • Prometheus Unbound • Seven Against Thebes • Peitho and bia • Textual criticism • Thoughts and words • Hypotexts • Goos and lament • Restless dead and their active help in revenge • Reversal • Iphigenia • Rhetoric • Ritual Lamentation • Seeming and being • Homer • Ephymnia • Aeschylus • Lyric lexicon • Io’s wanderings • Tragedy • Authority of the speaker • Reflection on language • Prayer
Permalink http://doi.org/10.30687/979-12-5742-013-0 | e-ISBN 979-12-5742-013-0 | ISBN (PRINT) 979-12-5742-060-4 | Published Feb. 26, 2026 | Language it, en, de
Subseries Lexis Studies in Greek and Latin Literature e-ISSN 2724-0142 ISSN 2724-377X
Volume published with the co-financing of the Ministero dell’Università e della Ricerca, National Recovery and Resilience Plan – Missione 4 – Componente 2 Investimento 1.1 – “Fondo per il Programma Nazionale di Ricerca e per Progetti di Rilevante Interesse Nazionale (PRIN)” PRIN 2022 D.D. n. 104 02/02/2022, “Aeschylean Tragedy. Texts, Hypotexts, Performance”, P.I. Prof. Enrico Medda, CUP I53D23005400006.Copyright © 2026 Enrico Medda, Andrea Taddei. This is an open-access work distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction is permitted, provided that the original author(s) and the copyright owner(s) are credited and that the original publication is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. The license allows for commercial use. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms.