出版社：Universidad de Aveiro, Departamento de Línguas e Culturas
摘要：Iphigenia at Aulis is set against the background of Euripides’ questioning of thefairness of war, at a time of decadence and fragmentation of Hellas, as a result of thelong civil war that destroyed cities, values and exposed all the repercussions of the evilactions of demagogues, the danger of people falling prey to manipulation due to theirthirst for the wealth so easily obtained in wartime. The innocent are the victims. Themotive of Panhelenism is nothing but a useful fallacy. Euripides resorts to several typesof persuasion speeches—devoid of persuasive effectiveness, but succeeding neverthelessin unmasking characters, both speakers and recipients of such speeches—to make thisend-of-century tension livelier
