Supervisors info:
Καίτη (Αικατερίνη) Διαμαντάκου, Καθηγήτρια, Τμήματος Θεατρικών Σπουδών ΕΚΠΑ
Κλειώ Φανουράκη
Αγις Μαρίνης
Summary:
This thesis aims to provide a teaching aid for the better familiarization of students with the ancient Greek drama both as a text with a specific linguistic identity and as a performing art, but also as a carrier of values. It thus aspires to raise concerns for the students that end up, both in the forging of their political ethos, and in the awareness of the different definitions of gender identities per culture, through the “meeting” of the ancient with the modern world. A guide to this thought will be the search for the dramatic character and identity of Antigone in all the extant tragedies of the Theban cycle, Seven against Thebes by Aeschylus, Antigone, Oedipus Tyrannus by Sophocles, Phoenician Women by Euripides and Oedipus at Colonus by Sophocles, where she appears, under the taxonomies: female, virgin woman, young girl, child. By this method it becomes more noticeable how the great tragedians represented the youth in the gendered version of the woman, within her possibilities and limits, or outside them, so that we can have a model of pedagogical teaching adequate for the modern, demanding educational process.
Keywords:
Antigone, representation of youth, ancient tragedy, gender role/identity, female
