ERICK GALLANI

The aim of this project is to analyze and understand the text "Iphigenia in Tháuride", by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, in relation to Euripides' "Iphigenia in Tháuride", to question the concept of tragedy, drama and the tragic, in the context of the relations between ancient and modern. In order to undertake this comparative analysis, we will start from the Greek understanding of tragedy, based on Aristotle's "The Poetics", in contrast to the modern theorization of the relationship between drama and tragedy (as proposed by Hegel). In this way, this project seeks to highlight the differences raised by this confrontation and, in this sense, to understand the change in the conceptualization of tragedy in antiquity - based on its formal aspect - to the concept of the tragic in modernity, under the prism of the philosophy proposed by German classicism, especially based on the correspondence between Schiller and Goethe, whose project and intention can only be understood when analyzing the relationship between theory and artistic creation, in this case, dramaturgical writing, which were linked to the themes of antiquity.