Sophocles’ and Euripides’ Antigone: A model of interlocution
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https://doi.org/10.34624/fb.v0i21.41396Keywords:
Rewriting, Reception, Tyranny, Romanesque tragedyAbstract
Sophocles achieved enormous success with his Antigone, not only among his contemporaries, but throughout the millennia. Even today, his 441 BC creation remains the most performed tragedy, with the greatest repercussions in terms of adaptations and rewrites.
Echoing this same popularity, Euripides composed his own Antigone years later, a play that is lost to us, but which was also popular in antiquity. As far as the testimonies and fragments that have been preserved allow us to conclude, Euripides took up the strong lines of Sophocles’ play, but by altering their proportion, he turned a tragedy with a strong political character into a play of a novelistic nature.
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