In Phaedra 613-4 Seneca describes Phaedra’s mad fantasies: she dreams of following Hippolytus in a winter-landscape as a vestigatrix, a servant carrying nets to capture game. This sounds as a veiled allusion at the protagonist’s order to his servants in the prologue ‘Scandite colles semper canos/ nive Riphaea’ (vv. 7-8). If so, Phaedra’s words would relate to the elegiac commonplace of the vestigatio, part of the servitium amoris motive.
Rivoltella, M., 'Phaedra vestigatrix': allusione senecana ad un motivo elegiaco in Phd. 613-614, in Castagna, L., Riboldi, C. (ed.), Amicitiae templa serena. Studi in onore di GIuseppe Aricò, 2, Vita e Pensiero, Milano 2008: 1427- 1432 [http://hdl.handle.net/10807/36064]
'Phaedra vestigatrix': allusione senecana ad un motivo elegiaco in Phd. 613-614
Rivoltella, Massimo
2008
Abstract
In Phaedra 613-4 Seneca describes Phaedra’s mad fantasies: she dreams of following Hippolytus in a winter-landscape as a vestigatrix, a servant carrying nets to capture game. This sounds as a veiled allusion at the protagonist’s order to his servants in the prologue ‘Scandite colles semper canos/ nive Riphaea’ (vv. 7-8). If so, Phaedra’s words would relate to the elegiac commonplace of the vestigatio, part of the servitium amoris motive.
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