Wiener Studien 124/2011, pp. 25-38, 2011/11/07
Zeitschrift für Klassische Philologie, Patristik und lateinische Tradition
The stage performance of the ‘palace miracle’ has been a major question in contemporary research. While the interest has so far focused on the palace as an edifice and on the effect the natural disaster has on it, this essay rather deals with the chorus’ role during the earthquake: the stage directions, the choreography and the careful use of the language, combined with the comparison of this episode with similar scenes in Prometheus Bound and Heracles, leads to the conclusion that Euripides involves artistically the chorus and its mimetic movements so as to represent a difficult scene in a most persuasive way.
