DE MADRES, CIUDADES Y TABLILLAS: ALCANCES POLÍTICOS Y LITERARIOS DE UN ENIGMA FAMILIAR EN LA COMEDIA MEDIA (ANTÍFANES, SAFO, FR. 194 K.-A)
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Antiphanes – Sappho – MiddleComedy – Athenianfamily - PoliticsAbstract
The fragment 194 (Kassel-Austin) of the comic poet Antiphanes, from his play Sappho (c. 360 BCE), reproduces a dialogue between the poetess and an unknown character related to a riddle. The suggested image of a woman keeping his silent children safe while they cry loud to those who want to listen is re-signified in the passage from both a political and a self-referential level. Initially understood to be a pólis protecting her corrupt demagogues, the family scene is finally explained in terms of a writing tablet with letters seen as its mute children. The riddle, therefore, becomes an interesting strategy in order to consolidate, from a comic standpoint, the polyvalence of the maternal image as aefficient metaphorical mechanism capable of addressing those issues which are the main topics of the genre.
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