"Qua licet et sequitur pudor est miscendus Amor" (OV.epist.4.9): la transgresión de los límites y los límites de la transgresión en la carta de Fedra
ISSN: 1131-9062
Datum der Publikation: 2012
Ausgabe: 32
Nummer: 2
Seiten: 247-269
Art: Artikel
Andere Publikationen in: Cuadernos de filología clásica: Estudios latinos
Zusammenfassung
Phaedra�s epistle to Hippolytus generally stands out in the Heroides, among other reasons for being a letter of seduction. However, even though it is one at the beginning, later on Phaedra�s voice gradually changes until it becomes a discourse of open persuasion and finally, a supplication. To devise the words he attributes to the Cretan heroine, Ovid took his inspiration from those Euripides gave her earlier on in his tragedies, but in the elegiac transposition of the tragic heroine, he employed, above all, his own voice as elegiac poet, which determines Phaedra�s masculine attitudes in a position of power with respect to her young addressee. Nevertheless, the feminine voice of Sulpicia and that which the amicus Sulpiciae lends her are also employed. In the study of these combinations of voices we point up the transgression of limits of gender and and their limitations.