Le corps de la polis et le corps du héros
This contribution aims at examining the relationship between politics and the hero’s body in the tragic corpus of the 5th century BC. The idea that the polis can be conceived as a living organism and, as such, subject to a condition of health or disease creates a symbolic analogy with the human body...
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Anthropologie et Histoire des Mondes Antiques
2022-04-01
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| description | This contribution aims at examining the relationship between politics and the hero’s body in the tragic corpus of the 5th century BC. The idea that the polis can be conceived as a living organism and, as such, subject to a condition of health or disease creates a symbolic analogy with the human body, in particular with the body of the tragic hero. In the first part of the paper the author analyzes the way in which the relationship between the health of the ruler and the well-being of the city has been developed in several literary contexts. In this perspective, reference is quickly made to Plato’s corpus, in which metaphorical assimilations between the city and the human organism is frequent since the microcosm of physical health echoes to the macrocosm of the order of state. The second part of the paper studies the link between the hero's body and the polis organism through the analysis of Sophocles' Oedipus king: in this tragedy, hero's illness is no longer understood as a physical infirmity, but in its moral and political dimension. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-1d671c4e786e4dc8b545800e9a69194f2022-12-22T00:34:57ZengAnthropologie et Histoire des Mondes AntiquesCahiers Mondes Anciens2107-01992022-04-011610.4000/mondesanciens.4273Le corps de la polis et le corps du hérosEnrica ZamperiniThis contribution aims at examining the relationship between politics and the hero’s body in the tragic corpus of the 5th century BC. The idea that the polis can be conceived as a living organism and, as such, subject to a condition of health or disease creates a symbolic analogy with the human body, in particular with the body of the tragic hero. In the first part of the paper the author analyzes the way in which the relationship between the health of the ruler and the well-being of the city has been developed in several literary contexts. In this perspective, reference is quickly made to Plato’s corpus, in which metaphorical assimilations between the city and the human organism is frequent since the microcosm of physical health echoes to the macrocosm of the order of state. The second part of the paper studies the link between the hero's body and the polis organism through the analysis of Sophocles' Oedipus king: in this tragedy, hero's illness is no longer understood as a physical infirmity, but in its moral and political dimension.http://journals.openedition.org/mondesanciens/4273herotragedycorporeityorderstasis |
| spellingShingle | Enrica Zamperini Le corps de la polis et le corps du héros Cahiers Mondes Anciens hero tragedy corporeity order stasis |
| title | Le corps de la polis et le corps du héros |
| title_full | Le corps de la polis et le corps du héros |
| title_fullStr | Le corps de la polis et le corps du héros |
| title_full_unstemmed | Le corps de la polis et le corps du héros |
| title_short | Le corps de la polis et le corps du héros |
| title_sort | le corps de la polis et le corps du heros |
| topic | hero tragedy corporeity order stasis |
| url | http://journals.openedition.org/mondesanciens/4273 |
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