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 Choral odes • Seeming and being • Iphigenia • Lyric lexicon • Restless dead and their active help in revenge • Rhetoric • Tragedy • Agamemnon • Prometheus Unbound • Authorship • Greek tragedy • Ephymnia • Prometheus Bound • Voice and silences • Thoughts and words • Vengeance • Reflection on language • Fragmenta tragica adespota • Geographical descriptions • Lyric poetry • Myth • Performance • Aeschylus • Suppliant Women • Seven Against Thebes • Other Aeschylean plays • Fragmentary tragedy • Textual criticism • Weaving as text • Libation Bearers • Repetitions • Homer • Reversal • Ritual Lamentation • Tragic lexicon • Authority of the speaker • Goos and lament • Prayer • Peitho and bia • Solution of inner freezing through embodied emotio • Electra • Body skills • Io’s wanderings • Hypotexts • Costume • Landscape
Permalink http://doi.org/10.30687/979-12-5742-013-0 | e-ISBN 979-12-5742-013-0 | ISBN (PRINT) 979-12-5742-060-4 | Published Feb. 26, 2026 | Language en, de, it
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.