Deianeira, a complex figure, under the model of ‘the vengeful queen’

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DOI:

https://doi.org/10.14195/2183-1718_74_2

Keywords:

Herodotus, vengeful queen, Clytemnestra, Medea

Abstract

The complex personality and attitude of Sophoclean Deianeira, in Women of Trachis, allows a net of confluences with figures and situations that Herodotus' narration and Aeschylus' and Euripides' tragedy put in evidence too. And the first convention a comparison of all these texts offers is the well known episode of the 'vengeful queen'. So we propose here an analysis of Deianeira in Sophocles, considering the topics of this narrative and dramatic convention.  

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Author Biography

Maria de Fátima Silva, University of Coimbra

Doutora em Letras pela Universidade de Coimbra, na especialidade de Literatura Grega, com a tese Crítica do teatro na Comédia Antiga. Professora Catedrática da Faculdade de Letras da Universidade de Coimbra, tem dedicado a sua investigação à literatura, ao teatro, à historiografia e à filosofia dos Gregos, designadamente a Aristófanes, Eurípides, Heródoto e Aristóteles.

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Published

2019-11-05

Issue

Vol. 74 (2019)

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