The main oddity in Ovid's Her. 14 lies in the fact that the motif of love appears to be absent and Hypermestra's « pietas » overrepresented. The epistle can be set against the backdrop of a recent historical event, namely Livia Drusilla's marriage to Octavian. The strangeness of the epistle may somehow resides in its being suspended between the fictional world of elegy and this historical frame.
The "Strangeness" of Hypermestra's Letter to Lynceus
Chiara Battistella
2022-01-01
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The main oddity in Ovid's Her. 14 lies in the fact that the motif of love appears to be absent and Hypermestra's « pietas » overrepresented. The epistle can be set against the backdrop of a recent historical event, namely Livia Drusilla's marriage to Octavian. The strangeness of the epistle may somehow resides in its being suspended between the fictional world of elegy and this historical frame.File in questo prodotto:
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