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Chapter | Il bucato di Nausicaa
Il bucato di Nausicaa
Una nuova lettura di Sofocle, fr. 439 R. (Ναυσικάα ἢ Πλύντριαι)
Abstract
The article starts by reviewing the main evidence concerning Homeric influence on Sophocles’ poetry, with the goal of creating an effective background for the analysis of the presumably most Homeric of his plays, the lost Ναυσικάα ἢ Πλύντριαι (Nausicaa or The Washerwomen). This play demonstrably dramatized the meeting between the castaway Odysseus and the Phaeacian princess as told in Odyssey VI; only three fragments survive (439-441 R.). The article suggests a Homeric hypotext taken from an early scene of that book – the laundry of Nausicaa’s maidens – for fr. 439 R., borne out by a new reading of the much-discussed verb of the line.
Submitted: March 14, 2022 | Accepted: June 10, 2022 | Published Dec. 14, 2022 | Language: it
Keywords Nausicaa or The Washerwomen • Laundry • Homer • Odyssey • Sophocles
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