Tragedy as way of thinking
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Tragedy as a way of thinking rises from the integration of two types of prior poetry: the epic and the choral ones. Homeric poems gave tragedy the themes and characters, the choral poetry gave it a diverse and critical view of these themes and characters. Thus, tragedy uses the mythical thought, as well as its repertoire of images and its own logic as means and way of thinking the contemporary Athenians’ way of life. After presenting the relation of tragedy with the Athenian State and its political culture, this article describes the dynamics of mythical thought and sums up the main issues regarding the tragedies by Euripides.
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