This paper focuses on Sophocles’ now lost drama Women of Lemnos (frag. 384-389 R.), relatively neglected by the critics also considering its state of conservation. Yet several aspects of this play make it worthy of a deeper analysis: for example i…

In this paper, I argue that Euripides in the Ion deploys his onstage figures to comment, in a self-referential way and in some select moments, on the nature and function of language, thus offering some instances of metalanguage. Euripides grafts…

The concept of γένος γυναικῶν (or γυναικεῖον γένοςor θῆλυ γένος ) recurs in Athenian theatre production of the 5th and 4th centuries to indicate the social group of women: a “lineage” with negative connota…

 Edoardo Sanguineti has experienced only once the translation of a classical comedy, namely Aristophanes’ Thesmophoriazousai (La festa delle donne). The ancient playwright allowed him to play with the lexicon and carry out many linguistic experim…

 This paper presents a new reading of Alexis’ fr. 42 KA from the comedy Gynaikokratia, with a particular focus on the use of the term kerkis. The term, which means ‘section of the theatre’, also has a polysemic reference to ‘weaver’s s…

 The outline of the story of the mime contained in P.Oxy. 219 runs as follows: a cock falls in love with a hen and flies away with her. The cock-breeder laments gravely over this erotic adventure and the concomitant loss. However, a range of masterf…

The character of the Iliadic Thersites doesn’t seem apt to the ancient drama. The evidences of his presence on the scene are very few and fragmentary. On the contrary, the modern theatre, starting with Shakespeare, has introduced Thersites as a signifi…

Madness sent by the gods and a sense of honor which, when wounded, leads to suicide overwhelm the existence of both Ajax and Phaedra, protagonists respectively of Ajax by Sophocles and Phaedra-Hippolytus Crown Bearer by Euripides, on stage at the Gre…

 La cultura teatrale italiana piange Nicola Savarese, scomparso a Roma il 20 giugno a settantotto anni. Savarese è stato uno dei più importanti studiosi di teatro della seconda metà del Novecento, molto notoanche all'estero. Ma in realtà, nel s…