(Re)discovering Briseida's feelings
Identity and Characterization in the Classical Tradition and Contemporary Women-Authored Rewritings with a Gender-Sensitive Perspectiv
Keywords:
Briseis, contemporary rewritings with a gender perspective, Achilles, For the Most Beautiful, IliadAbstract
The aim of this article is to analyze the representation of Briseisin Emily Hauser’s novel For the Most Beautiful (2016), while comparing it with its classical hypotexts and other contemporary rewritings authored by women. Briseis’ feelings are barely mentioned in the Iliad, but these voids and gaps are the starting point for many women to (re)build this character, especially in its affective-sentimental dimension. Some of these novels are For the Most Beautiful, Achilles (2002) by
Elizabeth Cook, The Song of Achilles (2011) by Madeline
Miller, The Silence of the Girls (2018) by Pat Barker and A
Thousand Ships (2019) by Natalie Haynes. A critical
comparison between her sources in the classical tradition and how her role and feelings as a slave are reinterpreted in these feminist refigurations sheds light on the character’s identitarian essence and her past and present function.
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