The rhetoric of weapons in Euripides’ Heracles. Bow versus spear
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Encinas Reguero, María del Carmen
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Mnemosyne 73(2) : 224-242 (2020)
Abstract
Euripides’ Heracles includes an agon scene between Lycus and Amphitryon in which great prominence is attached to the value of the bow as opposed to that of the spear. According to some scholars, this debate about the weapons is not appropriate and it even seems to create a break in the dramatic illusion. This paper, however, analyzes the role of bows and spears in the tragedy and it shows how weapons are used to make visible the transformation of the hero in the play.