"Rhesus" revisited: the case for a fourth-century Macedonian context

• Autores: Vayos J. Liapis
• Localización: Journal of hellenic studies, ISSN 0075-4269, Nº 129, 2009, págs. 71-88
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • A number of individual passages in Rhesus, a tragedy whose attribution to Euripides has repeatedly been questioned, evince extensive familiarity with institutions and mentalities prevalent in fourth-century Macedonia. The paper argues that Rhesus was composed and produced for a Macedonian performance context, probably between the late 350s and the late 330s BC, by an author who, while familiar with Athenian tragedy and conceivably of Athenian origin, may have lived in the court of Philip II or Alexander III.