A HOSPITALIDADE EM O RAPTO DE HELENA, DE COLUTO

Abstract

This work aims to study the hospitality traits contained within Coluto's O Rapto de Helena. This poem reaches us and deals with a theme, whose central point is found in the title of the work. The study will specifically analyzes on the actions between Paris and Helen, the hospitality offered to the Trojan prince, the fate of Helen traced by Aphrodite, the conduct of Helen, the break in hospitality and the Hermione's dream, as the origin of the Trojan war. We will seek to proceed with the analysis of these elements based on bibliographic studies that point to theories that encompass both the religion and thought of the ancient Greek people, as well as the religion and thought of the Greek people of the period called late antiquity. For this analysis to be efficient, we will present a translation of the excerpts that will be analyzed, in order to provide the reader with an intelligible understanding of the work and the analysis presented.