Pietrosanti, The Silence of the lambs: human and animal voices in Aeschylus’ Oresteia
- Classical Theater,
- Contemporary Performance,
- Animals,
- Silence
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Abstract
This essay analyzes Aeschylus’s masterpiece The Oresteia, following the suggestions of a theater performance (Orestea, Agamennone, Schiavi, Conversio by Anagoor, winner of the Silver Lion at the 2018 Venice Biennale) and a new translation of the script (made by Simone Derai and Patrizia Vercesi). The contemporary artistic work induces a new consideration about the big linguistic and mental categories of greek tragic theater and guides the investigation regarding Aeschylus’s concept of silence in all its variables. It also exhorts the rethinking of silence itself, considered not only as the absence of words but the use of other non-human voces (‘voices’), or at least not only