Collera, crisi politica e soggetti queer. Da Antigone a Dioniso

How does outrage work in Greek tragedy? Does the success or defeat of outraged characheters depend on gender identity? The paper outlines two differents patterns from Sophocles’ and Euripides’ drama. Through her orgé Antigone does not open a new history. Oedipus’ catastrophe is updated, the catastrophe of an impossible and indiscernible legiti - macy: political power ashamed to discover that it is founded on horror. Antigone’s outrage is the fruit of the political incest played out in Oedipus’ story. It is a wretched family where fathers, sons and brothers mingle and blur into a monstrous muddle and this is the symbolic image of a crisis in Athenian democracy. The Sophoclean pattern of implosion is antagonistic to the Euripidean pattern, where the system explodes and is shattered forever. Euripides’ dramaturgy draws queer outraged characters – Medea and Dionysus – who transgress the boundaries of identity category and liquidate corrupt system and affiliations.