Apples for Cydippe and Atalanta: a love gift or a deceit strategy?
Ovid uses the apple as a symbolic element to refer to the love stories of Cyddipe and Acontius, in Heroides 20 and 21, and those of Atalanta and Hippomenes, in Metamorphoses 10 (560-707). In both cases the union of the couples is caused by a trick or stratagem, whose trigger –the apple– conditions t...
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Instituto de Letras Alfredo Veiravé, Facultad de Humanidades, Universidad Nacional del Nordeste
2020-09-01
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Series: | Cuadernos de Literatura |
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Online Access: | https://revistas.unne.edu.ar/index.php/clt/article/view/4472 |