Soberanos e impíos. El poder y la impiedad en las tragedias de Eurípides.

Abstract

Euripides has a predilection for proposing characters that embody the power and, at the same time, they are protagonists of all sorts of impiety. This work deals with the different types of impiety that these sovereigns are capable of committing and that, definitively, they consist of a transgression of the limits that mark the divine divisions, as well as the traditions of the ancestors. As Euripides exposes in the Heracleidae, there is nothing outside the sphere of piety and religion, there is no moral reference point (Heracl. 619-620). As impious, these sovereigns are glaringly tragic men.