La sabiduría de Deyanira

• Autores: Juan Luis López Cruces
• 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. 257-283
• Idioma: español
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• Resumen

  • The author studies the gnomic reflections which Deianeira enunciates in the course of Sophocles's Trachiniae, and describes her struggle to establish a position of authority over those around her -which she loses in the presence of her female confidants (the Nurse and the Chorus of Maidens from Trachis) but is able to assert over the men she converses with (her son Hyllus, the Old Man, and Lycas the herald). She constantly tries to adapt her thoughts and actions to accepted norms, but she fails for two reasons: first, the fear that paralyzes her and, second, her subservience to male authority, including that of the centaur Nessos. Even her accounts of past events (especially Acheloos' metamorphosis and the oracle on the fate of Heracles) may sound to the ears of the audience as if they have been vitiated by her misrepresentations.