The Women and the Sea: The Subjective Seascape in Ovid’s Heroides

• Autores: Simona Martorana
• Localización: The Ancient Sea: The Utopian and Catastrophic in Classical Narratives and their Reception / coord. por Hamish Williams, Ross Clare, 2022, ISBN 9781800854239, págs. 165-180
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • Upon ending the last letter of the Heroides, the Ovidian Sappho (the fictional writer of Heroides 15) mentions the sea: Leucadiae […] aquae (Leucadian waters). The adjective “Leucadian” indicates the sea surrounding the Leucadian rock, in present-day Lefkada, from which the poet Sappho allegedly took her suicidal leap, but the term has also been understood as generically indicating the sea around the small Greek islands. In Sappho’s letter, the sea both articulates the catastrophic, dramatic outcome of her narrative, culminating in her suicide, and represents a place of solace, refuge, and literary creation.