ELEMENTI TRAGICI NEL DISCORSO DI APPIO CLAUDIO CIECO CONTRO LA PACE CON PIRRO

Abstract

This article deals with the celebrated speech pronounced by the senator Appius Claudius Caecus who fiercely opposed the peace with the King Pyrrhus of Epire. After analysing the (alleged) blindness of this statesman, the author tries to show that the beginning of this oratio, as reported by the ancient sources, is constructed on some Sophoclean verse of the tragedy named Oedipous Rex.