The Female Victims: The <em>Uulnus Amoris</em> of Medea and Dido

Abstract

This is an article about the analysis of the uulnus amoris that the gods Eros and Cupid cause in Medea and Dido since the divine intervention of the goddesses Aphrodite and Venus, respectively. It researches the way Medea and Dido are victims of the loving passion, by identifying the mythical agents that intervene and the causes by which another god requests Aphrodite`s and Venus intervention. The theoretical framework is based on the classic rhetoric and the attributes that Eros and Cupid have, which have been extracted from the works of the authors Pindar, Euripides, Apollonius of Rhodes, Virgil and Ovid.