A justificação do tiranicídio na Écloga Gérion de Lucas Pereira

• Autor(a) principal: Fernandes, José Sílvio Moreira
• Data de Publicação: 2008
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Repositório Científico de Acesso Aberto de Portugal (Repositórios Cientìficos)
• Texto Completo: https://doi.org/10.34624/agora.v0i10.10359

Lucas Pereira has written a dramatic eclogue to be performed in the ceremony of the closing of the school year in the College of Coimbra in 1612.The chosen topic was Hercules’s tenth labour against Gerion, the three-faced monster which was traditionally situated in the southwest of the Iberian Peninsula. In this adaptation of the myth, the author has centred Hercules’s tyrannicide, who defeats his opponent in a single combat which took place on a hill near Coimbra, in Lusitania.We seek to show that one of the play’s intentions lies in the presentation of a theory of legitimazation of the tyrannicide perpetrated against the oppressive tyrant whose threefold appearance could stand for the enemies of Portugal at the beginning of the 17th century: lions (Castile), leopards (England) and Pygmies (internal allies of the Iberian Union).