Alcune osservazioni sul F 46 Kn., 11-12

Abstract

In this contribution we consider the additions and conjectures proposed by Wilamowitz to F 46 K. 11-12 (= F 6 Sn.; F 5 Jouan-van Looy) that belong to the Euripides' tragedy Alexandros. The criticism, starting from the publication of the Strasbourg Papyrus, has accepted almost unanimously his proposals, but it has often underlined the need to be careful towards these hypotheses for the lacunosity of the verses. Applying the results of my doctoral thesis to the implicit stage direction during actor's entrance, that F 46 K, 11-12 contains, the aim of my paper is to propose some reflections on Wilamowitz's integrations and conjectures through a new approach to the text: generally each linguistic segment of the stage directions of actor's entrances depends not only on linguistic factors, but also on performative and dialogical factors and some sentence's segments have greater autonomy respect to the formularity that this type of implicit captions presents in Euripides. The argument is based on the application of the most important principles of pragmatics, of language's philosophy and dependence's grammar, which supports and enriches philological analysis. The implicit stage directions in entrance's scenes are informative-descriptive sentences and for this characteristic they can be considered a small drama in the drama, as it is a statement that accompanies and describes an action of movement of entrances on the scene. This approach, thanks to the results of a systematic research on implicit announcement captions of entrances in Euripides' tragedies can be applicated to the fragmentaries tragedy in order to argue new evidences for or against the conjectures and additions contemplated by the scholars and highlight new possible hypotheses. This research ultimately proves that the formularity of Euripidean entry announcements and the author's linguistic choices depend strictly on the staging.