Laura Carrara

Bio: Laura Carrara is an academic researcher. The author has an hindex of 1, co-authored 3 publications receiving 3 citations.

Il processo Areopagitico di Oreste: Le Eumenidi di Eschilo e la tradizione Attica

Abstract: Abstract The importance of determining the exact origin of the trial of Orestes before the Areopagus at the end of Aeschylus's Eumenides has not been fully acknowledged by modern scholars. Through a close scrutiny of the surviving evidences concerning the genealogical book of Pherecydes, the aition of the Choes-festival and the roll of the Twelve Gods in the sphere of mythic history, this article suggests that there is no reason to accept the widespread belief that Aeschylus was (only) the heir of some pre-existent attic tradition. The trial of Orestes before the Athenian court turns out to be Aeschylus' own innovation, used by the poet to convey his new vision of justice.

La tradizione indiretta dei frammenti 390 e 391 R. dei Manteis di Sofocle da Alessandria a Bisanzio (con un sondaggio sul cod. Lips. gr. 2)

Abstract: This article sets out to reconstruct the long and intricate road which has brought down to us two Sophoclean trimeters containing the proper name Πολύϊδος and once featuring in this poet’s now lost play Manteis (frr. 390 and 391 in Radt’s edition). Its main contention is that the two lines were selected for quotation – and thus saved from oblivion – by the grammarian Aelius Herodianus (2nd c. AD); he included them in his discussion of the correct spelling of Πολύϊδος (with ι, not with ει) in his lost work Orthography. It is argued that Herodianus’ entry on Πολύϊδος built on previous Alexandrian scholarship (now largely lost) on the seer’s name and that it was, in its turn, used as a source, direct and/or indirect, by the Byzantine testimonies of the Sophoclean fragments. While trying to demonstrate this, the article revives R. Reitzenstein’s old hypothesis that portions of Herodian’s Orthography are reflected in the orthographic palimpsest known as Lips. 2.

Rituale, spettacolo o gioco d’azzardo? Memorie del combattimento dei galli in Grecia antica. Considerazioni linguistiche e antropologiche

Abstract: La pratica sociale del combattimento dei galli in Grecia antica e stata oggetto di numerosi studi che ne hanno sottolineato in particolare lo statuto di spettacolo educativo, vero e proprio manifesto dell’ideologia della kalokagathia greca. Il gallo, animale coraggioso e prototipo dell’identita di genere maschile, sarebbe stato protagonista di diverse narrazioni, scritte o figurate, tese a esaltare o problematizzare alcune esperienze fondanti della vita sociale della Grecia classica, dal comportamento in guerra alla performance agonale, passando per il rapporto omoerotico. Questo contributo segue una via interpretativa differente concentrandosi su una messa in prospettiva storica e antropologica dei soggetti dell’enunciazione di simili racconti. Al centro dell’indagine saranno infatti le modalita discorsive, i soggetti e i contesti in cui questi racconti sul combattimento tra animali sono stati prodotti e diffusi, molti secoli dopo l’Atene di Pericle di cui pure trattano. In un secondo momento, lo studio si concentrera su un’analisi dei termini piu spesso associati ai galli nel tentativo di ricostruire una parte della rappresentazione condivisa riguardo questo animale, per proporre infine un’ulteriore prospettiva di interpretazione degli agones tra animali che tenga conto delle narrazioni antiche orientate a raccontare gli alektryones come impulsivi, patricidi e violenti, ponendoli di fatto al di fuori delle norme culturali umane. The social practice of cockfighting in ancient Greece has been the subject of numerous studies which have emphasized in particular the statute of educational spectacle, a real manifesto for the ideology of Greek kalokagathia . The rooster, a courageous animal and prototype of male gender identity, would have been the protagonist of several narratives, written or figured, aimed at enhancing or disambiguating some foundational experiences of the classical Greek social life from war behaviour to agonal performance passing through the homoerotic relationship. This contribution follows a different interpretative way, concentrating on the subjects of the enunciation of similar stories according to a historical and anthropological perspective. At the centre of the investigation will be in fact the rhetorical models, the subjects and the contexts in which these tales about the fight between animals have been produced and disseminated, many centuries after the Athens of Pericles which they deal with. Secondly, the study will focus on an analysis of the terms most often associated with roosters in an attempt to reconstruct a part of the shared representation about this animal, to finally propose a further and more complex possibility of interpretation concerning the agones among the animals that will be able to take into account the ancient cultural representations oriented to present the alektryones as impulsive, patricidal and violent, putting them in fact outside the human cultural norms.

Un caso di ‘invenzione della tradizione’ ateniese L’arrivo di Oreste ad Atene (schol. Eur. Or. 1648 = Hellanic. fr. 169 Fowler)

Abstract: This contribution analyses fr. 169 Fowler of Hellanikos of Lesbos, which focuses on the first four characters tried in the Areopagus court. The goal is to reconstruct some of the possible ways in which the traditions about Orestes in Athens were created and updated over time.