Abstract A preoccupation with fragmentation has defined many recent responses to antiquity. Within scholarship this focus takes the form of poststructuralist-informed readings, which highlight how any text can be perceived as fragmentary due epistemologies that we use frame our readings. artistic practice there is a corresponding privileging through dismembering text. Yet one does not need deco...

The Western fascination with Persia, intensified though it was by the nineteenth century obsession with Indo-European languages, extends back into the classical origins of European culture. As Edward Said notes, Aeschylus' The Persians demonstrates how deeply embedded in the European mind is the belief in Persia's quintessential status as an Oriental society. For many Orientalists Persia demons...

Background: Ancient Greek tragedy remains today a special dramatic genre that expresses the concept of classic through time, perhaps better than any other form art and culture, representing, as theatrical expression, vision conception expression values particular era. In this context, purpose present research is to study humanitarian European they are expressed in an...

Authorial presence in tragedy, where the poet never speaks his own person and there is no master voice to guide our reception, elusive implicit. Despite tragedy’s polyphony purpose of this study analyze some sample passages from Sophocles’ Electra for textual traces its author’s as a response Aeschylus’ Oresteia. Each part focusing on different aspects self-reflexive poetics.