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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. » “Blind”

“Blind”

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Themes

 

Language

lines 16-17

‘and the blood is divided like the children of Oedipus/ and the children of Oedipus are dead’ (και το αίμα μοιρασμένο σαν τα παιδιά του Οιδίποδα / και τα παιδιά του Οιδίποδα νεκρά); an allusion to  Aeschylus’ Seven Against Thebes 727-33, 816-19, 906-14, 941-50. 

 

Characters

lines 16, 17

Eteocles, Polynices, Oedipus     (these 3 characters are implied by the locution ‘the children of Oedipus’)

 

Bibliography

Orphanidis, N. 1985. Η πολιτική διάσταση της ποίησης του Σεφέρη, Athens, 150-2.

Savidis, G. P. 1986. ‘Το τραγικό όραμα του Γ.Σ.’, Lexis 53: 272-99.

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