Abstract
In World Culture love is presented as one the major topics explored by its intervenients. Concerning our study, it presents love and sexuality in terms of its
disruptiveness: they are characterized as a force that destabilizes the status quo of human communities, leading to situations of Love/ Violence and Love/ Death.
From this point of view, the Theme of Phaedra (after Thompson‟s Motif-Index) can be analysed in this perspective. Its variations allow him to adapt to different chronologies – from early Sumerian Literature to its Greco-Roman counterpart –, but both its object and content remain the same: in a mixture of wrath, humiliation and fear, Phaedra‟s love leads to Hippolytus‟ death and, consequently, to the perturbation of the family‟s life and sociability
disruptiveness: they are characterized as a force that destabilizes the status quo of human communities, leading to situations of Love/ Violence and Love/ Death.
From this point of view, the Theme of Phaedra (after Thompson‟s Motif-Index) can be analysed in this perspective. Its variations allow him to adapt to different chronologies – from early Sumerian Literature to its Greco-Roman counterpart –, but both its object and content remain the same: in a mixture of wrath, humiliation and fear, Phaedra‟s love leads to Hippolytus‟ death and, consequently, to the perturbation of the family‟s life and sociability
| Original language | English |
|---|---|
| Pages (from-to) | 45-55 |
| Number of pages | 11 |
| Journal | eClassica |
| Volume | 2 |
| Publication status | Published - 2016 |
| Event | A Violência no Mundo Antigo e Medieval - Faculdade de Letras da Universidade de Lisboa, Lisboa, Portugal Duration: 17 Feb 2014 → 18 Feb 2014 |
Keywords
- Comparative Cultural Studies
- Hippolytus
- Phaedra
- Death
- Violence
- Sexuality
