Hymn to Gaia /Mother of the Gods (391-402) in Sophocles' Philoktetes

Autores/as

  • Marcela Alejandra Ristorto Facultad de Humanidades y Artes. Centro de Estudios Helénicos. Universidad Nacional de Rosario

Palabras clave:

Greek Hymn, Tragedy, performance

Resumen

The purpose of the present article is to analyse the function of the Hymn to Gaia (vv. 391-402) in Sophocles’ Philoctetes and to examine Sophocles’ re-appropriation of the hymnic tradition. I shall  attempt to find the reasons for some of Sophocles’ departures from the tradition in the specific performance’s context. Indeed, the choice of the gods praised in hymns can be related with the notion of “athenocentrism” of Sophocles’ tragedy, that is to say, tragedies that were not located in Athens offer an aition (an explanation of origins) of Athenian’s customs and cults.

Biografía del autor/a

Marcela Alejandra Ristorto, Facultad de Humanidades y Artes. Centro de Estudios Helénicos. Universidad Nacional de Rosario

Profesora Asociada de la asignatura Literatura Europea I de la carrera de Letras de la Facultad de Humanidades y Artes de Rosario (parte especial Grecolatina) desde 2016Posdoctorado en Ciencias Humanas y Sociales de la Universidad de Buenos Aires. Título de Tesis: “Himnos a los dioses y culto heroico en la tragedia de Sófocles”. Director: Prof. Dr. Daniel Torres, con fecha 1 de octubre de 2015. (La primera postdoctora en Estudios Clásicos del país).Doctora en Letras, orientación Estudios Clásicos. Promedio diez. Título otorgado por en la Universidad Nacional de Sur. Jurado: Pedro Luis Villagra Diez, Pablo Cavallero, Rodolfo Buzón y Daniel Torres, diciembre de 2008.

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