Since the sophisticated and vigorous thematization of suicide is one of the most remarkable features of the Ajax, it is not surprising that this drama becomes a literary model for later writers who tell stories of self-killing, particularly if they want to look at the suicide as a problematic situation. In this paper I try to analyse two examples taken from the novelists: the (intended) suicide of Anthia in book 3 of Xenophon Ephesius’ Anthia and Habrocomes and the quasi suicide of Callirhoe in books 2 and 3 of Charito’s Chaireas and Callirhoe.

How to Kill Oneself Like an Ajax / G. Zanetto - In: Staging Ajax’s suicide / [a cura di] G.W. Most, L. Ozbek. - Prima edizione. - Pisa : Edizioni della Normale, 2015. - ISBN 978-88-7642-567-7. - pp. 273-286

How to Kill Oneself Like an Ajax

G. Zanetto
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2015

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Since the sophisticated and vigorous thematization of suicide is one of the most remarkable features of the Ajax, it is not surprising that this drama becomes a literary model for later writers who tell stories of self-killing, particularly if they want to look at the suicide as a problematic situation. In this paper I try to analyse two examples taken from the novelists: the (intended) suicide of Anthia in book 3 of Xenophon Ephesius’ Anthia and Habrocomes and the quasi suicide of Callirhoe in books 2 and 3 of Charito’s Chaireas and Callirhoe.
Letteratura greca; Intertestualità; Romanzo greco
Settore L-FIL-LET/02 - Lingua e Letteratura Greca
Settore L-FIL-LET/05 - Filologia Classica
2015
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