The Gorgons in Hades : on the literary references of the Herculanean "disegno N" 242 I
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2024
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Acerbo, Stefano, y Irene Pajón Leyra. «The Gorgons in Hades: on the literary references of the Herculanean “disegno N” 242 I». Cronache Ercolanesi, vol. 54, 2024, pp. 125-133.
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ABSTRACT: Taking the study of Luppe on the Herculanean “disegno N” 242 I as a starting point, this article suggests new readings and new proposals to reconstruct the missing parts of the text. Our interpretation facilitates establishing a textual relationship between the papyrus and Aeschylus’ “Phorcides”. Furthermore, it allows appreciating the existence of a mythical and literary tradition that placed the Gorgons in Hades, coherent with other extant pieces of information about Aeschylus’ work, and a possible testimony of a “katabasis” of Perseus.
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This study has been carried out in the context of the following research projects: “El prisma romano: ideología, cultura y clasicismo en la tradición geo-historiográfica, II” (PID2020-117119GB-C22; PI Francisco J. González Ponce) and “La mitografía antigua: fuentes orales y escritas” (PID2021‐122594NB‐I00; PI Jordi Pàmias).