Abstract
Like her Sophoclean predecessor, ps-Seneca’s Deianira kills her husband by mistake, sending him a robe that poisons him rather than restores his affections. Allusions to the words of vengeful protagonists—particularly Medea and Juno in Seneca’s Medea and Hercules Furens —complicate Deianira’s character with the models of deliberate killers. Deianira’s choice, to pursue anger or desire, is also a choice between the genres of tragedy and elegy, and in this respect ps-Seneca revisits the ironic mode distinctive of Ovid’s Heroides and of the Senecan tragedies that reappropriate their tragic material. Comme l’héroïne sophocléenne avant elle, la Déjanire du pseudo-Sénèque tue son mari par erreur, en lui envoyant une robe qui l’empoisonne au lieu de lui rendre son amour. Des allusions aux discours de protagonistes vengeurs – particulièrement Médée et Junon dans la Médée et l’ Hercule furieux de Sénèque – étoffent le personnage de Déjanire en l’associant à des modèles de tueurs volontaires. Le choix de Déjanire, de poursuivre sa colère ou son désir, est aussi un choix entre les genres tragique et élégiaque et, à cet égard, le pseudo-Sénèque revisite le mode ironique distinctif des Héroïdes d’Ovide et celui des tragédies de Sénèque qui se réapproprient leur matériel tragique.
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