Ἱκετεία and Euripides’ Hecuba: The conflict of the ritual and the secularized

In this paper I give possible reading of two episodes of Hecuba's supplication in Euripides' drama Hecuba. The papar follows actions of the female protagonist Hecuba who in her act of begging for mercy uses the ritual potential of this act, and the answer of two male characters (t...

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Main Author: Šijaković-Maidanik Đurđina
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Institute of Ethnography, SASA, Belgrade 2020-01-01
Series:Glasnik Etnografskog Instituta SANU
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Online Access:http://www.doiserbia.nb.rs/img/doi/0350-0861/2020/0350-08612001185S.pdf