I personaggi femminili in Orazio

Horace production offers a considerably varied gallery of female characters differ by age, social status, personality and behaviour which reflect, in a way quite likely, the custom of a role typified by schemes of cultural and symbolic order that women had to severely respect in public and private conduct. Try to find concrete appearances between the innumerable pseudonyms used by Horace is much difficult undertaking as superfluous, too many factors that are projected and mingle, spontaneously and not , in his work ,starting with the undeniable influences ideologizing the political and social context, or the conditioning of Greek-Hellenistic poetry; more profitable is undoubtedly the attempt to reconstruct, reflecting the indications provided by the poet, the complexity of a world, the female one, structured in a rigid system of values, functions and roles historically and traditionally regulated, and to identify attempts of change and progressive enlargement of such limited size.