« Savoir être étranger » : la question des réfugiés dans Les Suppliantes d’Eschyle

Abstract

In Aeschylus’ Suppliants, the Argians grant the status of metics to the Danaids and their father Danaus, who came as refugees in the city of Argos to escape the sons of Egyptos. My claim is that this status is the legal expression of an underlying work of an anthropological, ethical, and political articulation of the categories of the Same and the Other, an articulation of which the play presents three different versions: one is their violent confrontation represented by the herald of the Egyptians; the other two are the civic debate and the distrustful coexistence respectively represented by Pelasgus, the king of Argos, and Danaus.

Keywords

• Aeschylus
• difference
• foreigners
• Other
• Suppliants
• refugees