Íon, de Eurípides, e a fundação da Grécia patriarcal

Abstract

The tragedy Ion by Euripides dramatizes the myth of the father of Ionians, one of the Indo-European people who overran the Greek peninsula, leading to the Hellenic culture. Therefore, it can be found, in this tragedy, symbolic and archetypal elements of the meeting between the pre-patriarchal and agricultural culture of the coast and the culture of nomadic pastoralists of the inland. Thus, Euripides is a voice of matristic nostalgia in patriarchal Athens, in his century. This article seeks, therefore, to propose an anthropological critique of the tragedy by Euripides, in an attempt to bring another light to the controversial interpretation of this tragedy in his works. It is especially based on authors who relate myth, anthropology and literature, as Eliade (2001), Maturana and Verden-Zöller (2004), Erich Neumann (2003) and Ivanov (1981), among others.