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- Title
Desire and Rape in the Feminine: The Tales of Echo and Salmacis: An Ovidian Answer to Propertius 1.20?
- Authors
Fabre-Serris, Jacqueline
- Abstract
In this article the author offer a comprehensive study of two stories told in poet Ovid's Metamorphoses 3 and 4, each about the meeting between a boy (Narcissus/ Hermaphroditus) and a nymph Echo/Salmacis), consumed with desire at first glance. Topics include his argument that Ovid has derived the idea of constructing two parallel stories about erotically desirous nymphs, and Ovid is the ancient author most interested in examining erotic feelings and sexual situations from a female perspective.
- Subjects
OVID, 43 B.C.-17 or 18 A.D.; METAMORPHOSES (Book : Ovid); NARCISSUS (Greek mythology) in literature; NYMPHS (Greek deities); EROTICISM in literature
- Publication
Helios, 2018, Vol 45, Issue 2, p127
- ISSN
0160-0923
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1353/hel.2018.0006