Canto e espetáculo em Ifigênia em Áulis de Eurípides: prólogo e párodo (1–302)

Abstract

The aim of the present paper is to present some reflexions on the prologue and the parados of Euripides’ Iphigenia at Aulis (vv. 1-302).Although we present briefly the problemns of the transmission of the text of the prologue (dialogues between Agamemon and the servant), and of the parodos with the entrance of the chorus of newly married women from Calcis, we want to highlight the contrast and dramatic tension brought by these scenes to the spectacle to be seen by the audience. So, right in this beginning of the play, it is stablished the oposition between the young Iphigeneia, Agamemnon’s virgin eldest daughter, who will be sacrificed, and the married women that arrive from Calcis to “admire the spectacle” with the presence of the heroes, “demigods” in Aulis. Thereby, Euripides creates the ideal emotional atmosphere to the spectacle that will frame the heroic sacrifice of the young Iphigeneia.