La tragedia di Eschilo: testo, ipotesti, performance
Atti del Convegno Internazionale (Pisa, 1-2 ottobre 2025)
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edited by
- Enrico Medda - Università di Pisa, Italia - email orcid profile
- Andrea Taddei - Università di Pisa, Italia - email orcid profile
Abstract
The study of Aeschylus’ tragedy requires the integration of diverse and complex skills: textual criticism, literary criticism, performance studies, historical-anthropological approaches, and analysis of ancient and modern reception. The research group members of the 2022 PRIN project dedicated to Aeschylean tragedy some of these lines at the international conference held in Pisa on October 1-2, 2025, whose proceedings this volume collects. Among the topics addressed: the Aeschylean conception of language, various aspects of the Libation Bearers (Electra’s role and ritual texture of the first episode), a group of possibly Aeschylean adespota fragments, mythic geography in Prometheus Bound, metaphorical landscapes in the Suppliants, the link between Aeschylean diction and previous archaic lyric models, some typical Aeschylean figures of repetition, the development of Iphigenia’s character in the major tragedians. The interdisciplinary dialogue illuminates Aeschylus’ dramaturgical evolution, emphasizing intertextuality and performative staging.
Keywords Libation Bearers • Voice and silences • Suppliant Women • Iphigenia • Seven Against Thebes • Myth • Prometheus Unbound • Ephymnia • Goos and lament • Fragmenta tragica adespota • Weaving as text • Other Aeschylean plays • Tragic lexicon • Greek tragedy • Lyric poetry • Aeschylus • Ritual Lamentation • Fragmentary tragedy • Thoughts and words • Prometheus Bound • Textual criticism • Landscape • Reversal • Performance • Lyric lexicon • Vengeance • Peitho and bia • Restless dead and their active help in revenge • Homer • Io’s wanderings • Prayer • Choral odes • Electra • Authorship • Rhetoric • Seeming and being • Hypotexts • Costume • Repetitions • Geographical descriptions • Tragedy • Solution of inner freezing through embodied emotio • Body skills • Authority of the speaker • Agamemnon • Reflection on language
Permalink http://doi.org/10.30687/979-12-5742-013-0 | e-ISBN 979-12-5742-013-0 | Published Feb. 26, 2026 | Language en, it, de
Volume published with the co-financing of the Ministero dell’Università e della Ricerca, National Recovery and Resilience Plan – Missione 4 – Componente 2 Investimento 1.1 – “Fondo per il Programma Nazionale di Ricerca e per Progetti di Rilevante Interesse Nazionale (PRIN)” PRIN 2022 D.D. n. 104 02/02/2022, “Aeschylean Tragedy. Texts, Hypotexts, Performance”, P.I. Prof. Enrico Medda, CUP I53D23005400006.Copyright © 2026 Enrico Medda, Andrea Taddei. This is an open-access work distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction is permitted, provided that the original author(s) and the copyright owner(s) are credited and that the original publication is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. The license allows for commercial use. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms.