La tragédie morale de l’action: d’Oreste à Horace
La tragédie morale de l’action: d’Oreste à Horace

Summary/Abstract: Corneille’s Horace can be seen as a reinterpretation in disguise of Greek tragedies about Orestis, in a French 17th century when it was tacitly forbidden to translate or to adapt these very tragedies. The article analyses the use Corneille makes of similarities between the two subjects in order to get beyond the Ancient’s stand on three distinct issues: the hero’s moral reaction to his heroic crime, the hero’s interaction with the divine will and the hero’s trial.

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