Resumen

NOVOA LARA, Jazmín. Identity and Alterity. Transformation and Survival of the Myth of Atalanta from Antiquity to Modernity. Nova tellus [online]. 2023, vol.41, n.1, pp.173-198.  Epub 31-Mar-2023. ISSN 0185-3058.  https://doi.org/10.19130/iifl.nt.2023.41.1.2300s01x08.

Abstract: In this paper, I examine which elements of the myth of Atalanta enabled its survival from Antiquity to the present day. I find in the classical period her figure was used to recall the role of women in society; the Renaissance, to warn about the danger of her nature and the need for her domination; and Modernity, to enunciate the resistance of subordinated alterity. Thus, through a comprehensive study of literary and iconographic versions and variants of the myth, I argue that the articulation between identity and alterity is a device for its transformation and survival.

Palabras llave : Atalanta; Hippomenes; myth; survival; identity; alterity.