For the contrast between Apollo and the Erinyes in the Orestea, Aeschylus makes use of so-called “musical rhetoric”, a system of rhetorical figures connected to the world of sounds, instruments and musical forms, and referring to the cultural sense of the music. According to Greek thought, the solar idea of happiness is the philosophical and theogonical reason for the existence of Music, the domaine of Apollo. On the other hand, the Erinyes, the daughters of Night, are the enemies of Apollo, and their opposition to him is expressed through their denial of Music and by the use of blasphemous language: e.g. they are associated with pean, the song in honour of Apollo. The present study analyses the expressions referring to this “musical opposition” used throughout the trilogy from a lexical and rhetorical point of view.
La vittoria di Apollo sulle Erinni nel contrasto musicale dell' Orestea
Francesco Buè
2014
Abstract
For the contrast between Apollo and the Erinyes in the Orestea, Aeschylus makes use of so-called “musical rhetoric”, a system of rhetorical figures connected to the world of sounds, instruments and musical forms, and referring to the cultural sense of the music. According to Greek thought, the solar idea of happiness is the philosophical and theogonical reason for the existence of Music, the domaine of Apollo. On the other hand, the Erinyes, the daughters of Night, are the enemies of Apollo, and their opposition to him is expressed through their denial of Music and by the use of blasphemous language: e.g. they are associated with pean, the song in honour of Apollo. The present study analyses the expressions referring to this “musical opposition” used throughout the trilogy from a lexical and rhetorical point of view.I documenti in IRIS sono protetti da copyright e tutti i diritti sono riservati, salvo diversa indicazione.
