The "boastful" Bellerophon. The rhetoric in an Euripides' lost play

• Autores: Maria de Fátima da Silva
• Localización: Connecting rhetoric and Attic drama / Milagros Quijada Sagredo (ed. lit.), María del Carmen Encinas Reguero (ed. lit.), 2017, ISBN 978-88-7949-684-1, págs. 177-212
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • Bellerophon is one of the most popular plays among those by Euripides we lost. The references made by several authors (Homer, Hesiod, Pindar, Aristophanes) to the myth or concretely to the Euripidean version, allow us to make a global idea about its subject and structure. Rhetoric had a clear presence in this episode, where the old and pessimistic Bellerophon expressed his disillusion with human life