Conclusion

Abstract

This concluding chapter explains the codes of tragic heroines as per the works of Ovid. It also considers the process of geographic abjection, which features Ovid's exile to Tomis. The theories of Julia Kristeva and Judith Butler allowed a better understanding of the effect of Ovid's adaptations of Phaedra- and Medea-like figures and the construction of their gender. Ovid's poetry and his abject subjects gained the power to introduce new meanings for the paradigms of female sexuality. While the repetition testifies to Ovid's fascination with abject figures, the repetition of Phaedra- and Medea-like characters in various forms throughout his corpus may be a symptom of anxiety over women's sexuality and the hierarchies of power articulated by representations of sexual subjects.