O corpo em cena: o feminino trágico no espaço ateniense (V. a.C.)

Abstract

In this work I analyze the female body in the context of ancient Greek theater from the characters and contexts of the plays produced in the Greek polis in the 5th century BC. The discourse on the female body is accessed in Euripides' tragic poiesis (Εὐριπίδης - c. 480 - 406 BC) in tragic plays presented in The City Dionysia in the Athenian space between 431 and 414 BC: Medea (Μήδεια), Hecuba (Ἑκάβη) and Electra (Ἠλέκτρα). I seek to understand how the Athenian poet builds the spaces related to the female and the expression of the body of these tragic heroines. I intend to understand how the bodies of these female characters are observed, heard, expressed and narrated in the tragic logos of the Athenian poet. To historicize the female body and the expressions of the female in Euripidian poetics, I prioritize elements that aid in the decoding and perception of women's voices and presence in the tragic narrative: the lamentations (θρῆνος, thrênos), silences (σιωπής, siopis), transgression (ὕϐρις, hýbris) and motions (κίνησις / kinesis). The perception of this mythical female experience and the female body is accessed from the concept of Aspasia Skouroumouni Stavrinou's Female Space (2010). The body experience that is linked to the female in these spaces, the forms of subjectivity that produce this body, which creates these identities about this body, as subjective experiences, I understand that permeate the language. My purpose is to observe how this female body is presented in these discourses regarding the spaces of action of these women and the ways in which their bodies, gestures, actions in tragic poetics are narrated.