A febre da guerra: retórica e demagogia em "Ifigénia em Áulide"

• FIALHO, MARIA DO CÉU ^[1]
  1. [1] Universidade e Coimbra
• Localización: Ágora: estudos clássicos em debate, ISSN 0874-5498, Nº. 18, 2016, págs. 81-98
• Idioma: portugués
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  • "Iphigenia at Aulis" is set against the background of Euripides’ questioning of the fairness of war, at a time of decadence and fragmentation of Hellas, as a result of the long civil war that destroyed cities, values and exposed all the repercussions of the evil actions of demagogues, the danger of people falling prey to manipulation due to their thirst for the wealth so easily obtained in wartime. The innocent are the victims. The motive of Panhelenism is nothing but a useful fallacy. Euripides resorts to several types of persuasion speeches—devoid of persuasive effectiveness, but succeeding nevertheless in unmasking characters, both speakers and recipients of such speeches—to make this end-of-century tension livelier