L’auriga dal breve destino

Everyone who knows the myth of Phaethon, the unlucky charioteer, will certainly remember the well-known verses from Ovid's Metamorphoses. Yet what do we know about the surviving fragments of Euripides' Phaethon? When Goethe read this text in 1821, he thought the fragments were evidence of one of the poet’s most extraordinary works. Silvia Onori's volume presents a new critical-exegetical commentary on Euripides' Phaethon: Based on the text edited by Richard Kannicht, alongside each fragment we find a full list of bibliographical references, an analysis of the context of the quotation, an Italian translation, and an exegetical commentary. The introduction presents the sources for every fragment, a possible reconstruction of the drama, a hypothesis on its origin and the significance of the myth. The volume is completed by an appendix on the modern and contemporary revision of the myth.


Inhalt:
Premessa

Codicum et Papyrorum Sigla

I Introduzione
1 Tradizione diretta
2 Tradizione indiretta
3 Per una plausibile ricostruzione dell’intreccio del Fetonte
4 La datazione
5 L’auriga dal breve destino e le lacrime ambrate delle Eliadi: paradigmi mitici e loro fortuna

II Commento ai frammenti
1 Eur. Phaeth. fr. 771 Kannicht
2 Eur. Phaeth. fr. 772 Kannicht
3 Eur. Phaeth. fr. 772a Kannicht
4 Eur. Phaeth. 773 Kannicht
5 Eur. Phaeth. fr. 774 Kannicht
6 Eur. Phaeth. fr. 775 Kannicht
7 Eur. Phaeth. fr. 775a Kannicht
8 Eur. Phaeth. fr. 776 Kannicht
9 Eur. Phaeth. fr. 777 Kannicht
10 Eur. Phaeth. fr. 779 Kannicht
11 Eur. Phaeth. fr. 779a Kannicht
12 Eur. Phaeth. fr. 781 Kannicht
13 Eur. Phaeth. fr. 782 Kannicht
14 Eur. Phaeth. fr. 783 Kannicht
15 Eur. Phaeth. fr. 783a Kannicht
16 Eur. Phaeth. fr. 783b Kannicht
17 Eur. Phaeth. fr. 785 Kannicht
18 Eur. Phaeth. fr. 786 Kannicht

Appendice

Bibliografia

Index verborum

Indice dei passi estesamente discussi

Indice dei nomi e delle cose notevoli


Autor:inneninformation:
Silvia Onori graduated from Sapienza-University of Rome in 2017 and obtained her PhD in Greek Literature in 2021 at the University of Cassino under the supervision of Prof. Michele Napolitano with a thesis on Euripides' Phaethon. Her studies focus on tragic theatre, in particular on Euripides' works. She currently teaches Greek and Latin language and culture at the high school.