A NATUREZA PERFORMÁTICA DO TIRANO

Abstract

In order to highlight the performative nature of the tyrant, I intend to make some acknowledgments of the tyrant’s image between tragedy and philosophy. The investigative pathway that I propose is located between Aeschylus’ Prometheus Bound and Plato’s Republic. My aim is to show the reception of the tyrannical psyche of Zeus, or even of Prometheus, in the characterization of the tyrannical man in Republic IX.