A loucura de Hércules: intertextualidade entre Heracles, de Eurípides, e Hercules Furens, de Sêneca

Abstract

This dissertation addresses two tragedies, Heracles by Euripides (420-415 BCE), and Hercules Furens by Seneca (54 CE), having as their starting point plots that apparently tell the same story. We have analyzed each tragedy, focusing on the hero’s violence, on the madness that annihilate him and on goddesses’ retaliations, Hera or Juno. The protagonists’ violence, the divine wrath, the murder of children and wife, in part, engendered by the madness and the very nature of the heroes seem to be points in common between one work and another. The purpose of the analysis is to identify what is particular about the poetic project of each piece. The two tragedies, with similar plots, offer the opportunity to address meaning effects that readings of the texts can promote under the imprint of intertextuality as conceived by Pasquali (1946), Barchiese (1997), Fowler (2000), Kristeva (1969), Bakhtin (1997), Prata (2017) and Vasconcellos (1999).