Dido y Medea: aproximaciones a una lectura intratextual de las Heroidas VII y XII: Dido and Medea in a intratextual lecture of the Heroides's VII and XII epistles

This paper aims to analyze the intratextual relations between Dido’s (Ep. VII) and Medea’s (Ep. XII) epistles, which belong to Ovid’s Heroides. For this purpose, we will focus on common passages concerning the foedus amoris, the furor, and death as outcome for their grief. By doing so, it will be demonstrated that Medea, as an exemplar figure, contributes to Dido’s configuration, not only in an intertextual way (since Dido presents features in common with Apolonius’s Medea), but also according to an intratextual way.Este trabajo tiene como objetivo analizar relaciones intratextuales entre las epístolas de Dido (Ep. VII) y Medea (Ep. XII), pertenecientes al corpus de las Heroidas, de Ovidio. Para ello, nos centraremos en los puntos de contacto concernientes al foedus amoris, al furor y a la muerte como desenlace de sus lamentos. Mediante este procedimiento, se demostrará que Medea, como figura ejemplar, contribuye en la configuración de Dido, no solo de forma intertextual (ya que Dido presenta rasgos de la Medea de Apolonio), sino también de forma intratextual. Abstract This paper aims to analyze the intratextual relations between Dido’s (Ep. VII) and Medea’s (Ep. XII) epistles, which belong to Ovid’s Heroides. For this purpose, we will focus on common passages concerning the foedus amoris, the furor, and death as outcome for their grief. By doing so, it will be demonstrated that Medea, as an exemplar figure, contributes to Dido’s configuration, not only in an intertextual way (since Dido presents features in common with Apolonius’s Medea), but also according to an intratextual way. Keywords: Dido, Medea, Heroides, intratextuality, exemplarit