Risonanze della tragedia classica nelle Etiopiche di Eliodoro

I discuss three passages of Heliodorus' novel Aithiopika in the light of their connections with some classical tragic antecedents. The wording of 8.17.4 is reminiscent of Soph. Oed. Col. 770-774. The allusion to Eur. Hel. 1285-1286 in 8.7.4 recalls not only the form and the content of the Euripidean passage, but also its context. The explicit quotation of Eur. Med. 1317 in 1.8.7 points to the paratragic overtones of the following digression and lays the cornerstone on which Heliodorus builds a whole part of his novel.