O eu e o outro: a representação do grego e do estrangeiro a partir do espaço em Prometeu Acorrentado, de Ésquilo

Abstract

Aeschylus composed and staged the tragedy Prometheus Bound, in which he addresses the myth of Prometheus and presents a series of characteristics that are common to Aeschylus' work, including the appearance of the foreigner. In the case of the tragedy Prometheus Bound, the figure of this foreigner appears in the evocation of spaces that are non-Greek, characterized in opposition to Greek spaces, also present throughout the play. With this in mind, the primary objective of this work is to present how the representation of these places happens, and how this representation is configured within the context in which it was presented, without leaving aside, of course, the strong relationship between the tragedy, the myth and society of the time. This analysis will be carried out from a narratological perspective linked to a philosophical bias and a theatrical bias on notions of space, in addition to the concept of the rhetoric of otherness, established by François Hartog. At the end of the research, many aspects were found regarding this relationship that is present in the representation of Greek and foreign places within the play, one of them being the fact that the use of foreign figures made by Aeschylus has the intention much more of defining the Greek society itself than other societies.