Appunti su metis e tragedia. L'Elettra di Sofocle

This paper is part of a larger research project on the notion of μῆτις in Greek tragedy and seeks to stress the significance of this idea in the analysis of Sophocles’ Electra, with specific attention to the play’s intertextual relationship with Homeric poetry. It will focus, in particular, on the prologue (where Orestes’ Odyssean character is introduced), on the controversial rhesis on Orestes’ false death (modelled on Antilochus’ race in Iliad 23), as well as on the recognition scene of Orestes and Electra, where the contrast between the different heroic identities of the two characters becomes evident