%0 Journal Article
%A Acerbo, Stefano
%A Pajón Leyra, Irene
%T The Gorgons in Hades : on the literary references of the Herculanean "disegno N" 242 I
%D 2024
%@ 0391-1535
%U https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14352/122582
%X 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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