Varianti mitologiche e riflesso del pubblico nello “Stesicoro di Lille”

Abstract

Bringing together the fragments P.Lille 76abc, P.Lille 73 and P.Lille 111c made it possible to recover thirty-four lines of a poem by Stetichore on the Theban cycle. The narrative of the struggle between Eteocles and Polynices seems in its modalities to have been devised in view of satisfying the expectations of an audience of Magna Graecia: the audience of the Greek colonies found in the poem a reflection of its own identitarian status, of the problems of successional partition of goods and landed properties, of the outlets which the socio-political state of the West could procure to domestic differences. To sum it up, there would be a reflection, within the folds of the mythological narrative, of the addressee’s imaginings.

Keywords

• mythological variant
• referential public-audience
• Magna Graecia
• successional partition
• pragmatic function
• pacifying value