[Women and madness in the Eneid]

Med Secoli. 2012;24(3):689-703.
[Article in Italian]

Abstract

The article presents female cases of madness in Latin Vergilian Literature, comparing the Greek Dyonisian divine possession of the Maenads and Bacchae with the madness of Dido and Amata. Transcultural psychiatry is here proposed as a useful tool for reading the descriptions of the Aeneid - to try to understand every kind of world where barriers disappear between visible and invisible.

Publication types

  • English Abstract
  • Historical Article

MeSH terms

  • Female
  • History, Ancient
  • Humans
  • Mental Disorders / history*
  • Mythology*
  • Roman World
  • Women