{"id":3884,"date":"2024-10-20T15:07:39","date_gmt":"2024-10-20T15:07:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/greek-theatre.gr\/article\/chrysippus\/"},"modified":"2024-10-22T11:25:21","modified_gmt":"2024-10-22T11:25:21","slug":"chrysippus","status":"publish","type":"article","link":"https:\/\/greek-theatre.gr\/en\/article\/chrysippus\/","title":{"rendered":"Chrysippus"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Dimitriadis builds his play around Euripides\u2019 lost play <em>Chryssipus<\/em>. According to literary research, the ancient play was part of a trilogy that was also lost and nothing but two letters from the first verse have survived. It concerned the abduction of Chrysippus, Pelopas\u2019 young and beautiful son, by Laios<\/p>\n<p>Dimitriadis himself writes:<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Chrysippus is the embodiment of a person with an unparalleled and riveting beauty that masks the true face of the subject. Can this extreme beauty which is not the face but the fa\u00e7ade, which masks the true self that remains concealed, be misleading? \u00a0And, can this other self, the hidden, the invisible one that is difficult to perceive from the start and is nearly always noticed in retrospect \u2013 when it is too late \u2013, be nothing more than amorphous, unformed mater, than deformed flesh, than a perverse construct, than a \u2013 purely human but outright intolerable \u2013 abomination, refined only through an obvious, visible, superficial beauty that exploits this refinement to make way for deception, destruction and horror?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The play has been translated into French.<\/p>\n<p>Chrysippus<\/p>\n<p>6 male &#8211; 4 female<\/p>\n","protected":false},"template":"","format":"standard","categories":[11],"class_list":["post-3884","article","type-article","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-essays"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/greek-theatre.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/article\/3884","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/greek-theatre.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/article"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/greek-theatre.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/article"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/greek-theatre.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/article\/3884\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/greek-theatre.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3884"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greek-theatre.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3884"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}