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«E ora tutti mi chiamano Didone». Riscritture al femminile del mito della regina cartaginese nel quadro dei gender studies nella letteratura italiana degli anni Zero
Published
December 20, 2025
Keywords
- gender,
- epic,
- myth,
- Dido,
- rewriting
How to Cite
Lattarulo , S. F. (2025). «E ora tutti mi chiamano Didone». Riscritture al femminile del mito della regina cartaginese nel quadro dei gender studies nella letteratura italiana degli anni Zero. Una Κοινῇ - Magazine of Studies on the Classic and Its Reception in Modern and Contemporary Italian Literature, (6), 53-86. Retrieved from https://unakoine.it/index.php/unaK/article/view/161
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Abstract
This study, after examining the relationship between epic and gender studies, analyzes several examples of contemporary rewritings of the myth of Dido by Italian women writers who debuted in the 2000s. The study highlights that these narrators have followed the trend of reworking the story of the famous Carthaginian queen based on an older and lesser-known tradition than the Virgilian Vulgate. This anti-canonical version has encouraged a contemporary rereading of the figure of Dido from a gender perspective.