La parola come testimonianza dell'invisibile: l'immagine muta di Ifigenia nell'Agamennone di Eschilo

In the section of the Agamemnon of Aeschylus including the evocation by the Chorus of the Iphigenia’s sacrifce (vv. 238-247), the maiden – who is gagged and compelled to silence before being sacrifced – is metaphorically assimilated to a “graphè”, word meaning both “writing” and “painting”. Therefore, what comes in the foreground is the tenor irreducibly enigmatic of the word that, exactly while refers to the other from itself that is the mute language of the image, offers us itself as the witness of the relationship of co-implication connecting not only speakable and unspeakable, i.e. word and silence, but also visible and invisible and, more in general, representable and unrepresentable.