At the end of the Thebaid Argia plays ‘The Heroic Wife of the Unfortunate Hero’, a prestigious literary role. As a new Antigone, Polynices’ wife faces death in the name of conjugal love. Statius stages the aristeia of a matrona virilis, superior to an Amazon, creating a new model of female heroism and an epic in the feminine. Speaking like Vergil’s heroes and assuming the Stoic poses of Seneca’s martyr-heroines, Argia challenges the tyrant and struggles for primacy in offering herself to death.
Feminine Roles in Statius’ Thebaid: ‘The Heroic Wife of the Unfortunate Hero’
BESSONE, Federica
2010-01-01
Abstract
At the end of the Thebaid Argia plays ‘The Heroic Wife of the Unfortunate Hero’, a prestigious literary role. As a new Antigone, Polynices’ wife faces death in the name of conjugal love. Statius stages the aristeia of a matrona virilis, superior to an Amazon, creating a new model of female heroism and an epic in the feminine. Speaking like Vergil’s heroes and assuming the Stoic poses of Seneca’s martyr-heroines, Argia challenges the tyrant and struggles for primacy in offering herself to death.
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