Sophocles: eros and the heroic antithesis

Abstract

This article is an approximation to the interpretation of the female heroic figure in Sophocles, from a study of his works. The human condition determines the level of present heroism in the characters; the present dimensions of nobility and villainy in the being distinguished both heroes and heroines. To realize an investigation on the heroine sophoclean allows to contemplate the value of the woman for the author, in such a way that there can be adopted the idea of which, for his enormous distance with the hero and the force of his erotic affections, the poet prefers the woman to enrich his works, without attributing them, though apparent it, a small role.