Plot-makers in Euripides’ Ion-Reference-Cited by-同舟云学术

Plot-makers in Euripides’ Ion

Published:2022-03-02 Issue: Volume:32 Page:115-134
ISSN:1988-2637
Container-title:Cuadernos de Filología Clásica. Estudios griegos e indoeuropeos
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Short-container-title:Cuad. Filol. Clas. Estud. Griegos e Indoeur.

Author:

Dimoglidis Vasileios

Abstract

The aim of this paper is to examine the plot-makers in Euripides’ Ion, focusing in this way on an aspect of the Euripidean metapoetry. Ion’s four characters (Apollo, Xuthus, Creusa, and Ion) are transformed into plot-makers, with each of them trying to compose a plot. I have suggested that Apollo is the poet’s double, and thus his plot echoes that of Euripides. The fact that, despite the various deviations (unsuccessful sub-plots), the plot is redirected every single time to the god’s original plot, credits Apollo with the title of a successful theatrical writer (internal playwright), a title that finally Euripides himself assumes.

Publisher

Universidad Complutense de Madrid (UCM)

Subject

Linguistics and Language,Language and Linguistics,Classics

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