Approaching tragic structure to judicial procedure: Aeschylus's "Persians"

• Autores: Milagros Quijada Sagredo
• 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. 77-101
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • This study analyses certain intersections between tragic structure and the judicial procedure in Athens, which can already be seen in the earliest extant tragedy, Aeschylus's "Persians": the succession of evidence which attempt to establish whether an event - the defeat of the Persian army led by Xerxes - took place or not, and the way in which this evidence is presented, in a combination of long speeches and dialogues with questions and answers. In "Persians", we can already observe certain established conventions which will be maintained in later tragedies, such as the presence of the messenger as an eyewitness of the events which he narrates, and a second actor who expands on what happens on stage and whose main function is to answer different questions.