Resumen de Eschilo e l’ekkyklema: qualche nuova considerazione
This paper surveys the five episodes of the Oresteia taking place indoors (Clytemnestra’s bathroom in the Agamemnon; the entrance hall of the throne-room in the Choephoroi; the temple of Apollo, the temple of Athena, and the Areopagus court-room in the Eumenides). By closely sticking to the text and the relevant scholia, it makes clear that at least four of these requested the use of the ekkyklema in order to bring forward corpses, objects, and characters placed inside and make them visible to the audience; and that, in two cases, there was also an unusual opening of the central door of the skené through the use of two side windlasses. It concludes that, by turning them, these could be made to switch the central panels of the skené when a change of scene was needed — which exceptionally happens twice in the Eumenides
