La sabiduría de Teónoe y los tiempos trágicos de la "Helena" de Eurípides

• Autores: Javier Campos Daroca
• Localización: Palabras sabias de mujeres: teatro y sociedad en la antigüedad clásica / Francesco De Martino (ed. lit.), Carmen Morenilla Talens (ed. lit.), 2013, ISBN 978-88-7949-622-3, págs. 83-109
• Idioma: español
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• Resumen

  • Theonoe's appearance in Euripides' Helen should not be assessed exclusively in relation to her function in the plot, but according to her complex characterization as an authoritative figure carefully constructed along the play, one endowed with a kind of wisdom of extraordinary temporal and spatial scope. In this paper we state that the most important component in Theonoe's characterization comes from a wellknown Hesiodic tradition. Accordingly, we surmise a) that a pattern of contrast can be noticed by means of which the Homeric authority to sing the heroic past is reinterpreted from a more encompassing perspective, and b) that, on the grounds of this reinterpretation, Euripides says something of importance about his own dramatic technique and his capacity of telling the past in a new tragic mode.