Abstract:
This paper works with the perspective that Greek tragedy, as well as the biblical text, is part of a field of theological-literary and philosophical-literary representations and symbolic structure which constitute a common nucleus of the forms of knowledge of the human being and of the world. To carry out this task the concepts of literature, art, myth, hermeneutics, truth, philosophy, Greek and biblical tragedy are visited with the goal of reflecting on/comprehending the importance of the Greek and Hebrew-Christian myths, narrated, respectively in the Greek tragedy and in the Bible as literary texts, in the process of constructing the Western world. The theoretical reference put forth is that of the perspective of Nietzsche based on the work “The Origin of the Tragedy”. All of this has as background and perspective that the literary text invites the reader/interpreter through the esthetic seduction/comprehension, in the narrative complexity and the literary structure, to widen their conscience of the world, their capacity for dialog, their understanding of themselves and of the world itself, of the other. Understanding that all of human creation, in an inevitable way, carries with it the social-historical inheritance, we affirm that literature is not an exception since it is born and develops in an intimate relation with a society, a people and its historical process, being written by and for human beings of a given society, reflecting in a certain way their social, cultural, belief organization, etc. Besides the esthetic consideration, literature is a social phenomenon and the actions of the society reveal themselves in the work, the author and in the reader.
