Christus Patiens and the Reception of the Euripidean Tragedy in the Byzantine Empire
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Euripides, Christus Patiens, reception, Byzantine tragedy, ConstantinopleAbstract
This article intends to analyze in what terms the reception of the euripidean work took place in the Byzantine Empire. The Christian tragedy known as Christus Patiens will be scrutinized and questions will be made in order to clarify how a Christian piece of drama can be produced from verses of non Christian content. Through the cento, Gregory of Nazianzus (the allegedly author) proceeded to amalgamate aspects of two cultures per sedissimilar. Thus I intend to show and systematize how the euripidean verses were chosen and used in a Christian manner and I will argue that through the development of the character Mary the amalgamation of non Christian and Christian elements got its perfect accomplishment.References
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