Zur Frage nach der Herkunft der Alternativversion vom Tod Hektors: Ein Vorschlag (Aischylos, ‚Nereiden‘?)
- Autores: Peter Grossardt
- Localización: Gymnasium, ISSN 0342-5231, Vol. 131, Nº. 3, 2024, págs. 229-261
- Idioma: alemán
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Resumen
Achilles, in the ‘Iliad’, treats Hector’s corpse cruelly by yoking him to his chariot and pulling him from the battlefield to the ships, and then dragging him around the grave of Patroclus. However, there is an even more cruel post-Homeric version of the same story. In this, Hector at first is still alive; his own belt which he received from Ajax as a gift serves to tie him to the chariot; and he is dragged around the walls of Troy. Thus he becomes a horrifying spectacle for his own family, who are watching him from the walls. The present paper discusses all the major witnesses of this version and the various scholarly suggestions about its origin. It is argued that the suggestions which either trace the story back to the epic period or to Sophocles and Euripides are not satisfying. Instead, the story seems to be an invention by Aeschylus who made it an important part of a messenger-speech in his ‘Nereids’, the middle part of his trilogy about the wrath of Achilles.
