THE LEGAL AND MORAL OBLIGATION IN ALCESTIS OF EURiPIDES

Euripides distinguishes himself among the authors of tragedy for the ability to transform mythological stereotypes into human beings with a specific personal identity. He uses different strategies for this purpose. One of these strategies is to present the roles as they are seen by the others, in order to show both their acting and their psychological conditions. Another resource he uses is to show the of the roles through their speeches and their rhetorical capacities. The third technique is to create discussions between two couples of characters of whose one is a god and another is a mortal. In all these techniques, which he uses with a great rhetorical ability, there is always a fundamental idea as a revealing factor and base of discussion. In the case of Alcestis, the fire mark of is, the rule or the custom, and the interpretation of which the characters make it.