Alexandros (Euripides)

Alexandros ( ancient Greek Ἀλέξανδρος ) is a tragedy by the Greek playwright Euripides , preserved in fragments , which dates back to 415 BC. As the first part of a trilogy on the occasion of the Dionysia was premiered. The other two parts of the trilogy were the pieces Palamedes and the Troiades .

The fragments obtained have come down to us from Stobaios Eklogai and from papyrus finds.

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The shepherd's slave Alexandros takes part in a gymnastic agon in honor of the supposedly dead prince Paris in Troy and defeats a Trojan prince. There is a dispute over whether a slave's victory can be recognized. In the course of the dispute it turns out that Alexandros is Paris, believed dead, who had been abandoned by his parents because of a prophecy on the Ida Mountains and found and raised by shepherds. After he is recognized as the king's son, he is accepted back to Troy, which fulfills the prophecy and ultimately destroys Troy.

expenditure

• Tragicorum Graecorum Fragmenta , Volume 5, pp. 373-379.
• Gustav Adolf Seeck : Euripides. Complete tragedies and fragments , Volume 6. Artemis, Munich 1981. ISBN 3-7608-1532-4

literature

• David Kovacs: On the Alexandros of Euripides . In: Harvard Studies in Classical Philology 88. 1984. pp. 47-70.
• H. van Lovy: Les fragments d'Euripide . In: L'Antiquité Classique 32. 1963. S. 162 ff.
• Bruno Snell : Euripides, Alexandros . In: Hermes individual writings 5. 1937.