Penelope and Hypermnestra, Exempla Uxoris: Dispositio and Exemplarity in Heroidas 1 and 14, by Ovid

Authors

  • Cecilia Marcela Ugartemendía Universidade de São Paulo

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.11606/issn.2177-4218.v8i9p1-16

Keywords:

Heroidas, intratextuality, Penelope, Hypermnestra, Canace

Abstract

This article discusses the dispositio of Ep. 1 (from Penelope to Ulysses) and Ep. 14 (from Hypermnestra to Lynceus) in the transmitted corpus. The purpose is to demonstrate that the epistles 1 and 14, due to the paradigmatic features of the women who write them, are key elements in the opening and closure in the sequence of mythological exempla on women’s behaviour in a love relationship. Plus, we will discuss how Canace, Ep. 11, assumes – intratextually – virtues of the two exemplary women for herself to argue her own defense. By admitting her mistakes, she emphasizes the importance of virtues such as castitas, pudicitia and pietas, best represented in the corpus by Penelope and Hypermnestra

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Author Biography

  • Cecilia Marcela Ugartemendía, Universidade de São Paulo
    Doutoranda do Departamento de Letras Clássicas, FFLCH, USP.

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Published

2018-02-15

Issue

Vol. 8 No. 9 (2017)

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Penelope and Hypermnestra, Exempla Uxoris: Dispositio and Exemplarity in Heroidas 1 and 14, by Ovid. (2018). Mare Nostrum, 8(9), 1-16. https://doi.org/10.11606/issn.2177-4218.v8i9p1-16