Suggestioni tragiche in pseudo-Lisia VI, Contro Andocide

The oration Against Andocides, preserved as the sixth speech in the corpus Lysiacum but certainly not written by Lysias, is distinguished by a massive use of arguments that play on ancestral fears of a religious nature and by several points of contact with ideas that were familiar to the Athenians from their personal experience as spectators of tragedies. The aim of this paper is to analyze these tragic suggestions in order to show how the anonymous author intentionally plays on the theatrical memory of the jurors, thus constructing a forensic strategy based on the presentation of Andocides as an aliterios who must necessarily be removed from the city.