The victorious shepherd
notes on Sophocles’ Alexandros fragments
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Sophocles, fragments, Troy, recognition, Nostoi (Returns)Abstract
This paper aims to comment on the fragments of Sophocles’ play Alexandros, of unknown date, which narrates Paris’ victory in the athletic games, defeating his brothers Deiphobus and Hector, when they still did not know his true identity. Through his victory, Paris returns to his family, which triggers the events that will culminate in the destruction of Troy. As the play has only short and precarious fragments, this analysis firstly systematizes other sources (literary and iconographic) of the myth of the Trojan prince’s exposure and return in order to trace images and themes that may or may not have been configured in the tragedy; then, it dedicates to the study of the surviving verses, placing them in comparison with other works, especially Euripides’ Alexandros, whose plot has certain similarities to Sophocles’.
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