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This paper examines critically the fact that it is not the tragedy with a plot that is generally unknown to the unspecialized reader, but the one that is part of the cultural heritage of the common reader, that poses the greatest problems of interpretation, since the prejudices and preconceptions of the reader are also greater. Assuming the fact that our reading of Euripides' Medea is determined (even materially) by how we have understood certain Greek words, the present study reconsiders some aspects of Medea's program of revenge, an issue which has been previously studied in other works by the author of this paper. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The aim of this paper is to reconsider some Homeric problems paying special attention especially to two matters: the accumulation of wealth and the aspiration to equality in the core of a collective project. First, I elucidate the primary sense of ‘wealth’ in the Homeric poems; second, the common character of the Achaean enterprise is considered; third, I explain how these two problems suggest the loss of limits as a consequence of the homogeneity and disqualification attached to the accumulation of wealth as well as the common political project. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The aim of this paper is to contribute to the description of the form of the Pindaric Odes. Considering that poetry is in the first place a certain project of ‘mimesis’, we propose that the Odes accomplish a constant break of the ‘mimetic’ illusion. This break can assume different figures among which gnomic statements, deixis and ‘I’-poetics are perhaps the most conspicuous. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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