Verbos de obediencia en Sófocles. Estudio semántico

Abstract

The concept of obedience in this paper is understood as a valorative manifestation of politics. I try to define the moral quality of Man in the context of the polis. On the one hand, there are the verbs that indicate types of political behaviour of Man before the nomos; on the other hand, there are those that refer to a political behaviour developed within the boundaries of the genos. In the former, the idea of obedience corresponds to something completely political or of state level; in the latter, to political concepts such as morality or religion (family level). Linguistically, the examination of the Sophoclean corpus is based on a detailed study of the context (linguistics and extralinguistics), where the main and most important factor correspond to the distribution of the classes and subclasses of words at sentence level.