Whose memory is it? How reception might give voice to minorities being silenced since classical antiquity.
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https://doi.org/10.34019/2318-3446.2025.v13.46439Keywords:
reception; classical literature; anglophone literature; female writing.Abstract
This work was presented as a mini-course, and its objective was to show how contemporary Anglophone literature has presented a reception of classical Greek and Latin texts, highlighting characters and events that have been silenced in the great narratives. To this end, we used the readings of The Song of Achilles (2012), by Madeline Miller, and Lavinia (2008), by Ursula K. Le Guin, as reception texts that retell Homer's Iliad and Virgil's Aeneid, respectively; the theoretical background came from studies of classical reception and literary criticism, with Lorna Hardwick, Thomas Schmitz and Lois Tyson, to name a few. This is an excerpt from our incipient post-doctoral research, and the results we have found so far confirm that the perspective of secondary characters in classic texts dialogues intensely with our Western society, with our time, both through the recovery of timeless memories and the empowerment of minorities.
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