L’«evento» tragico nell’interpretazione di Carlo Diano 

This paper deals with Carlo Diano’s interpretation of Greek tragedy and the role the category of ‘event’ plays in it. First, I will analyse how, according to Diano, tragedy makes evident the irreconcilability between form and event. Then, I will retrace Diano’s readings of two tragedies, Sophocles’ Oedipus Rex and Euripides’ Alcestis, reading them respectively as a tragedy of the event and a tragedy of the form.