Clitemestra nell’Elettra di Euripide: la diffrazione di un paradigma

In “Electra” Euripides outlines the character of Clytemnestra adapting some elements of the Aeschylean one to a less heroic context, so that the literary stereotype of the perverse woman is inserted in a less clear-cut frame. The paper illustrates this by highlighting dramaturgical and thematic symmetries and reversals, but especially by showing Euripides’ manipulation of the paradigm as well as the particular meaning he attributes to this term: while dialoguing with his models, he takes up and changes the dramatic forms, always in favour of cognitive processes that stress emotional aspects and bewilder the audience.