Some similarities between the description and criticism of funeral customs in Lucian’s De Luctu and the representation of funeral and mourning in Euripides’ Trojan Women allow the identification of a continuity of practices on which both works are based. Similarities can be traced between Euripides and Lucian, and the article illustrates how the rhetorician engages with the tragedy. The different contexts reveal different attitudes to lamentation: although within a framework of shared cultic practices - and ethnographic continuity - different attitudes to these rites emerge. If Euripides’ tragedy is the container for its representation, Lucian’s notion of tragedy becomes the tool for exposing the fiction and absurdity of funerary lamentation.
Fra retorica e tragedia: alcune considerazioni su Luc. Luct. 10-24
Andrea Taddei
2025-01-01
Abstract
Some similarities between the description and criticism of funeral customs in Lucian’s De Luctu and the representation of funeral and mourning in Euripides’ Trojan Women allow the identification of a continuity of practices on which both works are based. Similarities can be traced between Euripides and Lucian, and the article illustrates how the rhetorician engages with the tragedy. The different contexts reveal different attitudes to lamentation: although within a framework of shared cultic practices - and ethnographic continuity - different attitudes to these rites emerge. If Euripides’ tragedy is the container for its representation, Lucian’s notion of tragedy becomes the tool for exposing the fiction and absurdity of funerary lamentation.I documenti in IRIS sono protetti da copyright e tutti i diritti sono riservati, salvo diversa indicazione.
