Frammenti di una tragedia familiare: conflitti generazionali nel 'Fetonte' di Euripide

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Silvia Onori

Abstract

Among the surviving fragments of Euripides’ Phaethon, there are some gnomic and sententious that the scholars have attributed to the agonal scene of the tragedy: the frr. 775-775a-776-777 K. Submitting to a new critical and exegetical analysis these brief fragments, firstly the paper aims to investigate and to define, where available, the topics of the contention between Merops and Phaethon - in particular Phaethon’s reluctance to marry and Merops’ yearning for wealth - and then the character traits of the contenders. Secondly, from a broader perspective, the paper proposes to examine the fragmentary traces of a generational conflict between father and son, old and young, recurring theme in Euripidean drama and peculiar in Phaethon’s domestic tragedy.

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Onori, S. (2019). Frammenti di una tragedia familiare: conflitti generazionali nel ’Fetonte’ di Euripide. Frammenti Sulla Scena (online), 77–100. https://doi.org/10.13135/2612-3908/3252
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Philologica