I set out to explore Euripides’ religious views by considering him as a thinker and an artist at the same time, or rather as an author who raises as an artist essential questions about the meaning of human existence in relation to that of the gods, not so much by putting into the mouth of his characters certain doxai, but rather by making them speak and act in a certain way within a specific setting. I detach myself both from the scholars who have seen in Euripides a defender of religious tradition and from those who tend to deconstruct his figures of the gods in a set of projections of various human feelings. Instead, I argue that Euripides questions from the beginning the coherence of traditional beliefs, with growing anxiety which leads, if not to a negation of the existence of the gods, to an exasperated attitude of doubt as to their role in human existence: which is sufficient for him to be counted among the authors whom Plato accuses of impiety in Laws 10.

L'art subtil d'Euripide de critiquer les dieux sur la scène

MARIA MICHELA SASSI
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2018-01-01

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I set out to explore Euripides’ religious views by considering him as a thinker and an artist at the same time, or rather as an author who raises as an artist essential questions about the meaning of human existence in relation to that of the gods, not so much by putting into the mouth of his characters certain doxai, but rather by making them speak and act in a certain way within a specific setting. I detach myself both from the scholars who have seen in Euripides a defender of religious tradition and from those who tend to deconstruct his figures of the gods in a set of projections of various human feelings. Instead, I argue that Euripides questions from the beginning the coherence of traditional beliefs, with growing anxiety which leads, if not to a negation of the existence of the gods, to an exasperated attitude of doubt as to their role in human existence: which is sufficient for him to be counted among the authors whom Plato accuses of impiety in Laws 10.
2018
Sassi, MARIA MICHELA
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