La prueba judicial en la tragedia: el caso de Edipo Rey

Abstract

Tragedy, as a democratic institution which discusses problems and troubles taking place in the πόλις, continuously refers to forensic issues. Relationships between tragedy and oratory are very complex and exceed largely the mere transfer of elements from a genre to the other. Tragedy takes components from forensic oratory not in order to use them exactly as they are produced in a tribunal, but to submit them to their own compositive strategies. This paper deals with forms and functions of a judicial proof when integrated to a tragedy, specially in the case of Sophocle’s O.T.