“Eumenides 748-751: Apollo between ritual and politics. At the dawn of Athenian democracy”
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https://doi.org/10.34624/agora.v0i26.37978Keywords:
Tragedy, Polis, Democracy, Vote, Rite, GodsAbstract
The famous words of Athena in the Eumenids, framed the relationship between politics and theater or, better, the relationship between the Athenian polis and the scenic scriptures of the Greek playwrights that have come to us. Starting from the assumption of facing two phenomena, democracy and tragedy that are “children” of a time and a precise “space”, I wanted to examine, in a ritual-religious and political key, the verses of Apollo in the Eumenids (734-736) because they place certain firm points of the democratic concept of power through a theatrical work.
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