Vivir con honor o con honor morir. La reelaboración de una disyuntiva heroica en el Heracles de Eurípides
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2019-04-01Author
Encinas Reguero, María del Carmen
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Ágora. Estudos Clássicos em Debate (21) : 83‐102 (2019)
Abstract
In Euripides’ Heracles the characters (Heracles’ family in the first part and Heracles
himself in the second) have to decide, in the face of a difficult situation, whether they accept
death or endure life. The family of Heracles accepts to die to fulfil the notion of εὐγένεια.
Heracles, by contrast, finally decides to live. The argumentation underlying this decision
implies a re‐elaboration of heroic values from much more humanistic perspectives.