Eurípides e o rito teatral para além da crítica nietzschiana

Abstract

The present work has as its scope the investigation about the theatrical initial rite on which the work of Euripides is based and, through tragic poems, its relationship with philosophy, emphasizing the historical period in which the Euripidean work is inserted, one cannot avoid making allusions to the two other great tragedians of ancient Greece, Aeschylus and Sophocles who, together with Euripides, form the canon of classical Greek tragedy that influenced and still reflects its light on the contemporary world. Along the investigative path on the theatrical-philosophical movement of Euripides, based on Greek myths, which preceded philosophy, but which, incorporated into that theatrical production of the tragic, dialogue inexorably with contemporary aesthetic-artistic-philosophical thought, which is observed through a historical arc that works with both ends of the aforementioned tradition, aiming to answer the questions about the relationship that contemporary theatrical-philosophical thought can establish with the theater of Euripides developed in Greek Antiquity. Respecting the colossal differences identified between the poles of the historical arc of ancient and contemporary thoughts, despite the existing correlations, passing more specifically through the aesthetic analyzes of Plato, Aristotle and Nietzsche, with their express criticism of Socratism and Platonism, it is aimed, as corollary, to see Euripides' philosophical theater beyond Nietzsche's criticism, through the analysis of his works and main characters, with the exception of the characteristic of the human being's historical animal, through the game of identity and historical difference, through which he can trace the anamnesis of the characters with the awareness that one can be, at the same time, the same human being (man/woman), but, paradoxically, never being the same human being, but with the awareness that the historicity of human beings is a reflection of the history of their words, therefore, of their meaning.