DISCURSO DE AFRODITE EM HIPÓLITO, DE EURÍPIDES, E A PRÁTICA DA IMPIEDADE COMO A RAIZ DE TODOS OS MALES

Abstract

This work proposes an analysis of the discourse of Aphrodite present in Hippolytus, greek tragedy by Euripides, as well as the practice of impiety by the young Hippolytus. Under a strong influence of Sophistic philosophy, Euripides, Greek tragediographer of the century V a. C., he put in his characters 'questions questions about religion, citizens' rights and the link that still prevailed between the public and private sectors. Using myths, Euripides gave them a new guise to express their real desires for political changes, their own way of seeing sacred things and, in Hippolytus, it couldn't be different. The author begins the play with a great discourse, charged with a strong religious and political content strictly linked to piety, through of none other than the great goddess of love, Aphrodite, who emerges as one of the main characters of the play. The discourse of the goddess is directed towards the practice of impiety practiced by the young Hippolytus, and it is about this practice that Euripides placed as a key element in his play that particular attention will be given.