Female atonement of war in The Trojan Women by Euripides

Authors

  • Ethel Beatriz Junco de Calabrese Universidad Panamericana, Campus Aguascalientes Departamento de Filosofía | Tel. (449) 910 6209 Ext. | Cel. 449 111 5589

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.15174/rv.v0i18.155

Abstract

In The Trojan Women by Euripides we observe the image of war in Western consciousness as the matrix of future identities facing two keys: the spacing of the divine and the female reaction. The logic of war is reversed in the purification virtue of the mother, holding her ability to give life through compassion, embodied in the burial, central act of the play. The burial for antonomasia of Troy, embodied in the shield of Hector to ensure Astyanax, is a sign of reconciliation by sacrifice and claim through the centuries of the superiority of peace.

Published

2016-07-19

How to Cite

Junco de Calabrese, E. B. (2016). Female atonement of war in The Trojan Women by Euripides. Valenciana, (18), pp. 125–146. https://doi.org/10.15174/rv.v0i18.155