Resumen de Fragments of Euripidean rhetoric: the trial-debate in Euripides' "Alexandros"
This chapter sets out to explore the use of agonistic rhetoric by Euripides with a particular focus on the less explored trial-debate in the "Alexandros" (415 BC). It is argued that the group of fragments preserved from this debate could yield insight to the agonistic opposition of ideas and the particular use of tragic rhetoric. This "agon", despite its fragmentary state, displays an extensive use of rhetorical vocabulary, terms and notions, devices and forms of argument, thus further contributing to the evidence for Euripidean agonistic rhetoric, which is congruent with the rhetorical culture of late-fifth agonistic rhetoric, which is congruent with the rhetorical culture of late fifth century Athens.
