Phéniciens et Puniques sur la scène tragique et comique, en Grèce et à Rome

Abstract

On the tragic stage, in Athens, as on the comic stage, in Rome, Phoenicians and Carthaginians play a role which conforms to a great extent to the stereotypes of otherness, but is also more subtle as regards the notion of kinship which makes the portrait more complex. All in all, tragedies and comedies draw both from their immediate context, characterized by conflicts and rivalries, and from the reservoir of mythological traditions that, through the figure of Cadmos, weave links between Phoenicians and Greeks.

Keywords

• Euripides
• Plautus
• Bacchae
• Phoenissae
• Poenulus
• fides punica