Il corpo, il gesto e la parola nelle Troiane di Euripide
The article applies the concept of polysemy to the text of Euripides’ Trojan Women, whose words are interpreted not only as bearers of content and of stylistic features, but also as signals and traces of opsis and gesture. In the Trojan Women, the atrocities of war find their visual counterpart in Hecuba’s body, which is present on stage throughout the play.