La figura de Paris en dos voces femeninas: otras miradas sobre el código heroico (Heroidas 5 y 17)

Abstract

The representation of the heroes and their actions in the Heroides is based on the enunciative perspective of singular female voices constructed by the Ovidian poetic discourse. Starting from a broad sense of intra- and inter-textual references between letters 5 and 17, we analyze, through two similes, the presentation of Paris. The first simile, referring to the movement of the leaves (Ov., Her., 5. 109 -112), was used in Enone’s letter, while the second one, related to the task of plowing in the sand (Ov., Her., 5, 115-116; and 17, 141-142), was used by both Enone and Helena.