EL PODER MANIPULADOR DE LAS RIQUEZAS: Reflexiones acerca del mito de Dánae y la tragedia Dánae de Eurípides
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https://doi.org/10.18830/issn2238-362X.v5.n2.2015.03Keywords:
Danae, Gold, Reclusion, Manipulation, AnachronismAbstract
Wealth, manifested gold and possessions, is a traditional tool for manipulating people. Greek myth gives many examples about the kind of situations can generate offering wealth. Political corruption or family betrayal are recurring consequences of the presence of gold in society and in core of the family. A particular case is the loving manipulation of a young maiden. Offering of gold for sexual intercourse is a central theme in the myth of Danae and in Euripides' play Danae whose fragments realize a tight agon on this topic. This paper attempts to present the lines of discussion of the power of wealth in Euripides' Danae from pointing out
the spaces that traditional mythic narrative leaves open for theatrical operation by the playwrite. This treatment is, in turn, a manipulation of myth and traditional épos through anachronisms that allow channeling the issue in the ways of V century BC Athenian society.
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