Open AccessCuando Apolo mató a Ganymedes. El “texte .liij.” de la Epistre Othea
Author(s) -
María José Folgar Brea
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
medievalia
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 2448-8232
DOI - 10.19130/medievalia.2021.53.1.25621
Subject(s) - knight , apollo , art , order (exchange) , variety (cybernetics) , humanities , feature (linguistics) , philosophy , computer science , physics , artificial intelligence , linguistics , zoology , finance , astronomy , economics , biology
Christine de Pizan's Epistre Othea aims to show a variety of models about what does it mean to be a perfect knight. In her book she bases on several sources, among which the Ovide moralisé is one of the most important. Thus, it´s surprising that one of the used exempla conspicuously departs from the content of this work (and others that she knew) by introducing an episode in which Apollo kills Ganymede, not only in the text itself but also in the iconographic program that accompanies it in the manuscripts. This article tries to draw attention to this unique feature in order to seek some possible explanation.