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The Meanings of σώιζειν in Alcestis’ Final Scene
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Miguel Herrero de Jáuregui
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November 15, 2016
Abstract:
In the final scene of Alcestis, while handing him his recovered wife, Heracles tells Admetus: ‘keep her safe’ (σῶιζε). This verb has a very marked meaning in the play, the plot of which focuses on saviours of different kinds (Apollo, Alcestis, Heracles). Heracles’ ironical exhortation to Admetus shows that Euripides is interested in contrasting different conceptions of salvation in fifth-century Athens, which are all ultimately useless towards death – except when predicated upon philia.
Published Online: 2016-11-15
Published in Print: 2016-11-15
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- Titelseiten
- Special Issue: Orphism and Greek Tragedy, Issue Editors: Jacqueline Assaël & Andreas Markantonatos
- Introduction
- The Degree of Orphic Initiation in Euripides’ Alcestis
- Two Orphic Images in Euripides: Hippolytus 952–957 and Cretans 472 Kannicht
- The Meanings of σώιζειν in Alcestis’ Final Scene
- Mystical Morality and Heroic Transcendence: Eleusinian Orphism and Political Ethics in Euripides’ Iphigenia at Aulis
- Dikē as Global World Order: An Orphic Inheritance in Aeschylus?
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