A VISÃO DA CATÁSTROFE NA TRAGÉDIA ÉDIPO TIRANO

Abstract

This work paper aims to present a study on analysis of the pathos scene in the tragedy Oedipus Tirano, through the concepts of enárgeia and ekphrasis, as descriptive techniques to promote the visualization of the report of the scene of suffering. As theoretical support for this work, Aristotle's work Poetics was used to define the tragic plot and the catastrophe, as well as some classical authors who dedicated themselves to finding definitions for the terms ekphrasis and enárgeia, such as the philosophers Cicero and Quintilian. The objective of the analysis is to investigate the messenger's reports in the aforementioned tragedy as an image production technique, identifying the presence of these ornaments and by what means the speaker completes the vivid representation of his characters and objects. The analysis of the scene (vs. 1236-1285) was made based on our translation of the original Greek text.