Pia Hypermestra and Impius Aeneas: The Deconstruction of Aeneas in Ovid’s Heroides (Her. XIV; Aen. VI 687-688, 697-698, 700-701)
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Hypermestra, Aeneas, pietas, Heroides, intertextualityAbstract
This paper proposes the hypothesis that Ovid deconstructs Aeneas in the Letter of Hypermestra to Lynceus (Her. XIV) and dismantles hegemonic cultural values extolled in the Aeneid, such as male pietas, by placing conjugal pietas, incarnated in Hipermestra, as a central value in the Heroides. On the basis of the analysis of the intertextual relationship between Her. XIV 45-50 and Aen. 678 ff., it is confirmed that there is an ironic relationship of contrast between Hipermestra and Aeneas, who are representative of both types of pietas. It is verified that this relationship aims to place Aeneas in the margin, since in the Heroides the impius Aeneas constitutes the central portrait of the hero, as can be observed in Dido’s Letter to Aeneas. Likewise, it is argued that Ovid choses precisely Hypermestra as the hero’s feminine counterpoint because an in direct opposition relationship between Aeneas and Hypermestra can be inferred in the Aeneid.
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