Etèocles segons Èsquil: expressió lingüística dels conflictes d’un personatge

Abstract

A linguistical analysis may complement the traditional approach, usually psychological, of the actions and development of Eteocles in Seven against Tebes. The character’s duality becomes also evident in his different ways of expression. Aeschylus presents a noble warrior, sententious as well as fond of morphologically conservative and lexically pompous features, but occasionally irascible. When the chorus manifest its fears or hears of the most odious attackers, a precipitous syntax, filled with anacoloutha and interpolated clauses, and crases or hiatuses (insofar as phonetic features may be appreciated in the text) betray his rudeness. Aeschylus manages to vivify one of the most controversial heroes of Greek literature, by making the most of tragic literary language