The Hermeneutics and Poetics of Memory in Aeschylus's Persae

Abstract

This article reads the Persae as a reflection on memory. First, it shows that the characters' reflections on the act of remembering add up to a hermeneutics of memory. Second, it is argued that these reflections can be applied to the Persae, which is an act of memory itself—the hermeneutics of memory can be turned into a poetics of memory. Third, this approach is complemented by an interpretation of Darius as a mise en abyme. In the same way that the genre of tragedy brings the past onto the stage, Darius presents an embedded past that enters the present of the action.

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