O que sabe Dejanira?: Interrogações sobre a personagem feminina de Sófocles, "Traquínias"

• Autores: Maria do Céu Zambujo Fialho
• Localización: Palabras sabias de mujeres: teatro y sociedad en la antigüedad clásica / Francesco De Martino (ed. lit.), Carmen Morenilla Talens (ed. lit.), 2013, ISBN 978-88-7949-622-3, págs. 227-235
• Idioma: portugués
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• Resumen

  • Deianeira's youth was tormented by the violence of manifestations of Eros, that she stimulated without any iniciative. She was victim of his force, that brought to her monsters and origined fights between her suitors. Her peculiar destiny as wife of Heracles brought her loneliness and anxiety. By seeing that she lost Heracles's attention at the moment that she knows his young beloved Iole and is informed about the violence that Heracles employed to conquer the young capive, Deianeira understands that Eros is again in action and that it has an universal power. She is aware that she is also under Eros's laws and that everything she makes to have Heracles back to her is legitimated by this law. This acute awareness moves her to action, but by acting she misunderstands that Eros is also acting over Heracles and has acted over Nessos, when the Centaur gave her the mortal poison, as if it was a love philter. Deianera's blindness leads her to the loss of Heracles and, consequently, to her own loss.