@article{THESIS,
      recid = {12697},
      author = {Filippaki, Christina},
      title = {Fictionality and World-Building in Euripides' Atreidai  Plays},
      publisher = {University of Chicago},
      school = {Ph.D.},
      address = {2024-08},
      number = {THESIS},
      abstract = {This dissertation argues that Euripides’ Electra,  Iphigenia among the Taurians (IT), Helen, Orestes and  Iphigenia in Aulis comprise a fictional multiverse: a  corpus of alternate, complementary, or conflicting  timelines wherein multiple versions of the same characters  and narratives coexist. It suggests that the verbal and  visual allusions, the patterns of iteration, the thematic  continuity, and the revisiting of unrealized possibilities  throughout the corpus as world-building tools weave an  intricate web of connections that ties the corpus together.  It also underscores the importance of the interplay between  novelty and tradition, as an overarching theme that further  contributes to the interconnectedness of the corpus. By  treating the plays as a fictional multiverse of “what if”  and “yes, and” scenarios that complement each other, this  dissertation suggests that each individual tragedy is to be  understood against the backdrop of the rest of the corpus.  In doing so, it provides new readings of all five plays,  and it reveals that their tragic essence stems from the  patterns of iteration within the corpus, while also  showcasing that this network of connections has a  cumulative effect on the audience, as the proliferation of  timelines constantly invites them to reexamine previous  plots. It aims to show that by liberating himself from the  constraints of linear narratives and exploiting the  flexibility, multivalence, and unending serialized  world-building inherent in multiverse narratives, Euripides  traps his audience in a cycle oscillating between despair  and anticipation, imbues his characters and narratives with  newfound depth and highlights the full potency of myth and  theater.  },
      url = {http://knowledge.uchicago.edu/record/12697},
      doi = {https://doi.org/10.6082/uchicago.12697},
}