The Women and the Sea: The Subjective Seascape in Ovid’s Heroides

Simona Martorana

The Women and the Sea: The Subjective Seascape in Ovid’s Heroides

School of Literature, Languages & Linguistics

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Upon ending the last letter of the Heroides, the Ovidian Sappho (the fictional writer of Heroides 15) mentions the sea: Leucadiae […] aquae (Leucadian waters).² The adjective “Leucadian” indicates the sea surrounding the Leucadian rock, in present-day Lefkada, from which the poet Sappho allegedly took her suicidal leap, but the term has also been understood as generically indicating the sea around the small Greek islands.³ In Sappho’s letter, the sea both articulates the catastrophic, dramatic outcome of her narrative, culminating in her suicide, and represents a place of solace, refuge, and literary creation.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	The Ancient Sea
Subtitle of host publication	The Utopian and Catastrophic in Classical Narratives and their Reception
Editors	Ross Clare, Hamish Williams
Publisher	Liverpool University Press
Chapter	8
Pages	165-180
ISBN (Electronic)	978-1-80207-922-7
Publication status	Published - Dec 2022

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Martorana, S. (2022). The Women and the Sea: The Subjective Seascape in Ovid’s Heroides. In R. Clare, & H. Williams (Eds.), The Ancient Sea: The Utopian and Catastrophic in Classical Narratives and their Reception (pp. 165-180). Liverpool University Press. https://www.academia.edu/45582040/_The_Women_and_the_Sea_the_Subjective_Seascape_in_Ovid_s_Heroides_in_R_Clare_H_Williams_eds_The_Ancient_Sea_The_Utopian_and_Catasatrophic_in_Classical_Narratives_and_their_Reception_Liverpool_University_Press_Liverpool_2022_165_180

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