Hijacking Sophocles, Burying Euripides

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Vidović, G. (2017). Hijacking Sophocles, Burying Euripides: Clytemnestra, Erinyes, and Oedipus in Aristophanes' Assemblywomen, (46), 34-67. Retrieved from http://emu.f.bg.ac.rs/lucidaintervalla/issues/46(2017).pdf
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Title

Hijacking Sophocles, Burying Euripides

Subtitle

Clytemnestra, Erinyes, and Oedipus in Aristophanes' Assemblywomen

Author

Goran, Vidović

Journal

Lucida intervalla

Volume
Issue

46

Start page

34

End page

67

ISSN

1450-6645

ISBN
DOI
URL

http://emu.f.bg.ac.rs/lucidaintervalla/issues/46(2017).pdf

Date

2017

Abstract

This paper identifies and analyzes several related, thematically significant tragedic resonances in Aristophanes’ Assemblywomen as exemplifying his shift from outright paratragedy to appropriation. His treatment of politicized gender and sexual tensions owes much both to Orestes-plays (Praxagora emerges as a comic Clytemnestra; the three old women as Erinyes) and to Sophocles’ Oedipus at Colonus. The abduction scene in Aristophanes is modeled on abduction of Oedipus, which elucidates the comedian’s attitude towards Sophocles.

Keywords

abduction, Aristophanes, Assemblywomen, burial, Erinyes, gender, Oedipus, Orestes-plays, paratragedy, sex, Sophocles