“ID CINEREM AUT MANES CREDIS SENTIRE SEPULTOS?”: O episódio da Matrona de Éfeso, do Satyricon, como paródia do amor entre Dido e Eneias.

Abstract

This paper will present an analysis of the parody developed by Petronius, specifically in the episode of the Matron of Ephesus, of the love affair between Dido and Aeneas. To this end, our research will seek to define the concept of parody, based on the work of the philosopher of language Mikhail Bakhtin. In this way, we will show how Queen Dido's pact of fidelity to her husband Siqueus, broken in the encounter with Aeneas, is parodically reconstructed through the inversion of the relationship between the Matron and the Soldier. In this way, what represents a tragic end in the Aeneid is satirically re-read with a comic-happy ending in the Satyricon