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"Our Heroic Debate with the Eumenides": » Greek Tragedy and the Poetics and Politics of Identity in Modern Greek Poetry and Theatre. » “Gymnopaidia P.S.”

“Gymnopaidia P.S.”

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Themes

The poem is permeated by the theme of the perpetual chain of murder and revenge, a theme that alludes to the Atreid myth and Aeschylus’ Oresteia.

 

Language

lines 19-20

‘blood/ brings more blood and yet more blood’  (το αίμα / φέρνει το αίμα κι άλλο αίμα); an allusion to Aeschylus’ Choephori 400-2.

 

Characters

 

Bibliography

Orphanidis, N. 1985. Η πολιτική διάσταση της ποίησης του Σεφέρη, Αthens, at 147-50. 

Petkou, E. 2006. ‘Ο μύθος των Ατρειδών στη νεότερη ελληνική ποίηση’, Logotechnika Themata 31: 112-24.

Ploritis, M. 1965. ‘Ο μύθος των Ατρειδών’, Nea Estia 78: 864-5.

Thomaidou-Morou, M. 1982. ‘Στοιχεία από τη Βίβλο και τη χριστιανική εικονογραφία σε ποιήματα του Σεφέρη’, Politis 50-51: 84-9.

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