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Речь, зрение и оправдание в "Ипполите" Еврипида и "Елене" Горгия
Two important themes of Euripides’ Hippolytus are speech and vision. They are represented as basic human faculties which lead to involuntary wrongdoings because they may be related to ignorance and emotions. They are therefore closely tied to typical exculpatory factors in rhetoric. Strikingly close to Hippolytus in its thematic structure is another text dating from the same period, namely Gorgias’ Encomium of Helen, which exhibits the same parallelism of emotional impact on vision and speech, the same exculpatory rhetorical strategy and the same association between vision and �ρως. The similarity between the works of Gorgias and Euripides hints at a possible connection between them. It is reasonable to assume that both Euripides and Gorgias employ a common sophistic topos; this topos in itself combines elements of forensic rhetoric as well as themes refl ecting philosophical interest in problems of speech and vision that was wide-spread in intellectual circles of the 5th century BC...