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dc.identifier	ECF_chapter_7118
dc.contributor.author	Medda Enrico
dc.title	Quando il mito perde i suoi dèi. La storia degli Atridi in House of Names di Colm Tóibín
dc.type	Chapter
dc.language.iso	it
dc.description.abstract	Colm Tóibín’s novel House of Names proposes an engaging reinterpretation of the ancient myth of the Atreidae, which becomes an occasion for bitter reflections on political oppression and violence. It is at the same time a Bildungsroman of Orestes, whose childhood is protected against the violence of his mother and Aegisthus by his stay, together with two young friends, Leander and Mitros, in a totally isolated place, a house without time where ancient myths are still alive in the narrations of an old woman. This essay deals with Tóibín’s complex relationship with his ancient sources, that are sometimes directly referred to, while in other occasion they are freely manipulated with the introduction of new characters and a substantial redefinition of traditional ones, such as Iphigenia, Cytemnestra, Orestes, Electra and Aegisthus.
dc.relation.ispartof	Lexis Supplements
dc.relation.ispartof	Lexis Studies in Greek and Latin Literature
dc.publisher	Edizioni Ca’ Foscari - Venice University Press, Fondazione Università Ca’ Foscari
dc.issued	2022-12-13
dc.dateAccepted	2022-03-07
dc.dateSubmitted	2021-12-22
dc.identifier.uri	http://edizionicafoscari.it/en/edizioni4/libri/978-88-6969-633-6/quando-il-mito-perde-i-suoi-dei/
dc.identifier.doi	10.30687/978-88-6969-632-9/009
dc.identifier.issn	2210-8866
dc.identifier.eissn	2724-3362
dc.identifier.isbn	978-88-6969-633-6
dc.identifier.eisbn	978-88-6969-632-9
dc.rights	Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International Public License
dc.rights.uri	http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
item.fulltext	with fulltext
item.grantfulltext	open
dc.peer-review	yes
dc.subject	Aeschylus
dc.subject	Atreidae
dc.subject	Clytemnestra
dc.subject	House of Names
dc.subject	Iphigenia
dc.subject	Oresteia
dc.subject	Orestes
dc.subject	Tóibín

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Quando il mito perde i suoi dèi

La storia degli Atridi in House of Names di Colm Tóibín

Enrico Medda Università di Pisa, Italia

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Colm Tóibín’s novel House of Names proposes an engaging reinterpretation of the ancient myth of the Atreidae, which becomes an occasion for bitter reflections on political oppression and violence. It is at the same time a Bildungsroman of Orestes, whose childhood is protected against the violence of his mother and Aegisthus by his stay, together with two young friends, Leander and Mitros, in a totally isolated place, a house without time where ancient myths are still alive in the narrations of an old woman. This essay deals with Tóibín’s complex relationship with his ancient sources, that are sometimes directly referred to, while in other occasion they are freely manipulated with the introduction of new characters and a substantial redefinition of traditional ones, such as Iphigenia, Cytemnestra, Orestes, Electra and Aegisthus.

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Dec. 13, 2022

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March 7, 2022

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Dec. 22, 2021

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978-88-6969-633-6

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978-88-6969-632-9

Keywords: Aeschylus • Orestes • Atreidae • Oresteia • House of Names • Tóibín • Clytemnestra • Iphigenia

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