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Rolling about and weeping (v. 499)

Pietro

The way Odisseus reacts to the sudden news of his journey to Hades is, in my opinion, typical of the Greek tragedy: an emphatic, uncontrolled, even exaggerated use of the body and then, when it’s time to speak, an absolut control of the words: because the fate has been already set for them, the reaction of […]