Between Lament and Irony
Some Cross-references in Ovid's Heroides 6 and 12
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 12427711 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Vaios Vaiopoulos (Ionian University, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2013 |
| Volume | 21 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 122-148 |
| Publication date | 2013-11-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Mediterranean Studies (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1074-164X • E-ISSN: 2161-4741 |
| Publisher | The Pennsylvania State University Press (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.5325/mediterraneanstu.21.2.0122 |
| OpenAlex | W490103854 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
After a short introduction to Ovid's Heroides, this article focuses on certain cross-references between Heroides 6 and 12. These two (fictitious) letters, the first, written by Hypsipyle, the queen of Lemnos, and the second written by the Colchian princess, Medea, are addressed to the same man, Jason. Before abandoning Medea in order to marry Creusa, Jason had already abandoned Hypsipyle for Medea, or so Hypsipyle claims. This article shows the intertextual complementarity of the two letters through the presentation of an imaginary communication between the two heroines, as Medea seems to “answer” some points in Hypsipyle's epistle
Art · Complementarity (molecular biology · Irony · Lament · Literature · Presentation (obstetrics · Psychoanalysis · Queen (butterfly · The Imaginary · Biblical Studies and Interpretation · Classical Antiquity Studies · Organic Chemistry Synthesis Methods · Philosophy · Psychology
| Citations per year | 0.2 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2021 - 2021 (1) |
| Highly cited | No |