A sombra do rei: análise da personagem Xerxes na tragédia Persas de Ésquilo

• Ano de defesa: 2022
• Autor(a) principal: Albuquerque, Rafael Vale Geroncio Borges de
• Tipo de documento: Dissertação
• Tipo de acesso: Acesso aberto
• Idioma: por
• Instituição de defesa: Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Norte; Brasil; UFRN; PROGRAMA DE PÓS-GRADUAÇÃO EM ESTUDOS DA LINGUAGEM
• Palavras-chave em Português: Tragédia grega; Cultura clássica; Ésquilo; Aristóteles
• Link de acesso: https://repositorio.ufrn.br/handle/123456789/47087

This thesis proposes an analysis of the character Xerxes in Aeschylus’ Persians tragedy. To the conduction of this research, theoretical bases of history and culture related to the ancient Greek world were used. The following authors guide this part: Albin Lesky (1995 and 2015), Jacqueline de Romilly (2008) and Maria Helena da Rocha Pereira (2006). The main text sources of this analysis are Poetics and Art of Rhetoric, by Aristotle, who has been chosen as main guide to the study here developed due to the temporal proximity of only a few decades between him and the author of the work being analyzed. Being 472 BC as the possible time of its first run, Persians unfolds the events triggered after the Persians’ defeat by the Greeks at the Battle of Salamis in 480 BC. The fact that the main characters in the play are characters of recent history for the audience in question was taken into consideration, that’s why it was necessary, for a broader comprehension, a text selection of the historian Herodotus, who narrated the most part of the conflicts between Greek and Persians. For the purposes of this research only the book VIII has been utilized for having as narrative scenery the Battle of Salamis and its unfolded events. The analysis process had as methodology the detailed lecture of the scenes and has collected opinions stated by its characters, opinions which have been confronted by the actions of the analyzed character, Xerxes, so that we could draw a profile through his characteristics and motivations. Bearing in mind that during the reading it was noticed that Xerxes often was compared to his father, Dario, a former king who through wars and invasions attached a huge number of lands to the already rich Persia. Those comparisons proved pertinent to enrich a profound comprehension of Xerxes, and for this reason it was also made an analysis of Dario, that followed that same means and technics utilized to study the king Xerxes, but always aiming at elements that would help the analysis of the young king. The culmination of this research is to understand Xerxes’ actions and ponder whether these actions are related or not to the conquers of his father.