TRAGIC TIME : RING COMPOSITION AND MYSTERY CULTS IN THE CHORAL SONGS OF SOPHOCLES ' ANTIGONE

In this article we aim to recognize ring-composition and to analyze how it is used in Sophocles’ Antigone’s choral songs in connection with the elements from the Eleusinian and the Dionysian cults that pervade the play. Our hypothesis claims that, rather than being a mere...

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Autor Principal: Hernández Aparicio, Santiago
Formato: Artículo revista
Lenguaje:spa
Publicado: AADEC - UNL 2018
Acceso en línea:https://bibliotecavirtual.unl.edu.ar/publicaciones/index.php/argos/article/view/9401
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Sumario:In this article we aim to recognize ring-composition and to analyze how it is used in Sophocles’ Antigone’s choral songs in connection with the elements from the Eleusinian and the Dionysian cults that pervade the play. Our hypothesis claims that, rather than being a mere factor of formal articulation, ring-composition has a dramatic function because it articulates the allusions to the mysteries through an interplay of parallelisms in order to represent the action as a failed initiation ritual. In the first part we develop our theoretical framework and analyze the chorus entry song.