Contaminaciones entre la matrona ideal y la puella elegíaca

What is it about?

This paper aims at identifying and analyzing different loci of Latin Literature in which ideal matro-na figure appears: certainly the Greek archetype is found into the homeric Penelope, while the Latin one into the livian Lucrecia. These two models are merged, reworked and polished up in the elegiac poetry of Propertius, Tibullus and Ovid and more precisely in the ovidian exile poetry they are unexpectedly renewed: Ovid gives his wife, Fabia, a flesh and bones woman, the characteristics of a respectable matrona, but her figure is revisited from an erotic-elegiac viewpoint. Tradition, literary fiction and historical and anthropological reality are merged and wonderfully blended into the figure of Fabia, who owes a great deal to Propertius Arethusa

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