As fronteiras entre o exílio trágico e a morte social em Medeia, de Sêneca

Abstract

This article aims to analyze the boundaries between the tragic exile and the social death in Medea, by Lucius Annaeus Seneca. The reflection starts from the discussion about the social conduit and political consultations of female and male characters represented in the tragic narrative. It is know that the tragedies present a set of behaviors and attitudes that was linked with the ethical and moral constructions of citizens. Normally, foreigners were associated with truculent actions and images of violence, anger, savagery, fury, between others. In this repertoire, Senecan tragedy followed, as it is proposed, a similar guideline once the representations of foreigners and their objectionable traits turned into rhetorical devices. It becomes, then, relevant to comprehend the role of foreigners as a construct of deviant behaviors from roman aristocracy in the imperial court.