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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. » In the Manner of G. S.

In the Manner of G. S.

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Themes

Lines 2-3

An allusion to the poisoned tunic of the Centaur Nessus, that clings on Heracles’ flesh and destroys him at the end of Sophocles’ Trachiniae.

 

Lines 12-15

The names mentioned here and the way in which they are described allude to Aeschylus’ Agamemnon and Euripides’ Helen.

 

Language

Line 35

“and if we see “the Aegean flower with corpses” ; A verbatim allusion to Αeschylus Agamemnon 659

 

Mythic Characters

Line 2: Centaur (i.e. Nessus)

Line 12: Atreidae

Line 13: Helen

Line 13: Menelaus

Line 14 : Cassandra

  

Bibliography

 

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