1. ANASTASIA-STAVROULA VALTADOROU
Information acquired: 2025
ANASTASIA-STAVROULA VALTADOROU is an academic who published a paper in 2016 entitled The Interrelation between Rhesus and its Genuine Poet: A Problematic Case of Reception?. ANASTASIA-STAVROULA VALTADOROU published this work as part of a team: Valtadorou, Anastasia-Stavroula. Here is a description of this work: Rhe,,us, a tragedy mainly attributed to Euripides, had critics already in antiquity: as the second Ὑπόθεσις of the play makes evident, its alleged poor quality caused some ancient scholars to express doubts about its authenticity. The authorship of Rhesus is still under debate. For instance, Vayos Liapis often claims that the surviving Rhesus is a play written in the fourth century BCE by an actor named Neoptolemos (Liapis 2009, 2012). Unsurprisingly, these claims about inauthenticity are again interwoven with the alleged poor poetic value of the play. This connection generally established between Euripides and works of high aesthetic value raises some intriguing questions: is the reception of a text influenced by our convictions about what is classical? Is there an actual connection between an object and its meaning.
