Mandato divino o conveniencia política en Ifigenia en Áulide y Hécuba de Eurípides

Greek mythology states, especially in the context of the Trojan cycle, the sacrifi ce of young girls because of religious imperatives. In this regard, fi gures of Iphigenia and Polyxena are paradigmatic. The Greek playwright Euripides chose this issue as a ground of tragedy in some of his works....

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Autor principal: Perriot, María Celina
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Sumario:Greek mythology states, especially in the context of the Trojan cycle, the sacrifi ce of young girls because of religious imperatives. In this regard, fi gures of Iphigenia and Polyxena are paradigmatic. The Greek playwright Euripides chose this issue as a ground of tragedy in some of his works. Thus in Iphigenia at Aulis and Hecuba, the topos of death for the homeland is an articulating axis of the action. However, we will see that Euripides applies to this issue a critical view. This paper attempts to show that in both tragedies, the stresses generated by the power and its edges, reveal the complex plot that interweaves religious motivations with political manipulations. Religious expressions such as rituals, oracles or divine warnings, become suspicious in this context and are loaded with ambiguous meanings that overshadow its credibility. Also, the Euripidean thought about diff erent behaviors of men and women (so common in his works), confi gures a dichotomous distribution about relations with the divine forces: men seem to respect religion while hiding selfi sh and ambitious intentions, whereas women show religious practices free of ulterior motives.