Sharing the pain and silence: meta‑theatral strategies in Aeschylus’ Prometheus Bound
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https://doi.org/10.14195/2183-1718_66_5Keywords:
Aeschylus, scene, vision, rhetorical strategy, philanthropyAbstract
This paper investigates a recurring rhetorical procedure in Prometheus Bound, by Aeschylus, which is characterized by a appeal to the audience – and to the readers – to see what the characters see. It displays the scene of the scene – a scene that unfolds itself before the characters’ eyes, a vision play, which is the rhetorical and artistic strategy of the play to invite audience and readers to philanthropy, to sympathize with the hero.
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