UN EPICEDIO PER TROIA. LETTURA METRICO-RITMICA DI EUR. TROAD. 511-567

The work presents a metrical analysis of the first stasimon of Euripides’ Trojan Women. The prevailing use of the iambic rhythm, most in the form of dimetres, seems aimed to three main objectives. First the expression of the captive women’s lament, second, due to the content and the dramatic setting, the affinity with a rhesis aggelike, third the enhancing of the verbal message using a simple and iterative melody. It’s a peculiar metrical structure – in Euripides’lyric – to «καινῶν ὕμνων ... ᾠδὰν ἐπικήδειον » (vv. 512-513)