In Ovid’s mythological poetry, the rare adjective pudibundus defines some female characters (first of all, Philomela; but also Lucretia, Echo and the incestuous hero- ines: Canace, Byblis and Myrrha) characterized by the impossibility, or difficulty, of speaking. The article inspects the narrative and rhetorical patterns that stress such impossibility, by creating a true rhetoric of reticence that discloses the narrow link between pudor and the loss of speech.
Pudor proiecto tua facta loquar. La comunicazione reticente delle eroine pudibundae di Ovidio
Alice Bonandini
2020-01-01
Abstract
In Ovid’s mythological poetry, the rare adjective pudibundus defines some female characters (first of all, Philomela; but also Lucretia, Echo and the incestuous hero- ines: Canace, Byblis and Myrrha) characterized by the impossibility, or difficulty, of speaking. The article inspects the narrative and rhetorical patterns that stress such impossibility, by creating a true rhetoric of reticence that discloses the narrow link between pudor and the loss of speech.
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