Vol. 1 No. 2 (2021)
Articoli

La democrazia a teatro

Emanuele Stolfi
Dipartimento di Giurisprudenza, Università degli Studi di Siena, Italia

Published 2021-10-22

Keywords

  • Diritto e letteratura, tragedia greca, democrazia ateniese, votazione, Eschilo e Sofocle

How to Cite

Stolfi, E. (2021). La democrazia a teatro. Specula Iuris, 1(2). https://doi.org/10.30682/specula0102a

Abstract

This paper focuses on some juridical and political aspects of the Athenian theater, with specific attention to three voting scenes (in Aeschylus’ Suppliants and Eumenides and Sophocles’ Ajax). The author examines the meaning attributed in the tragedy to the vote itself, with the different result that occurs in those three scenes: unanimous or majority decision, parity of votes.