(16) En este dialogo se vuelve a hacer referencia al tema de la castidad, para destacar su falta en
Creusa en clara oposicion al personaje de Florisenda.
(16) According to Vossius, it is due to all the excitement in the middle of the drama caused by the description of the gruesome deaths of
Creusa and Creon that Seneca is forced to explicitly stage how Medea slays both her sons.
While h is often observed that Marlowe has Aeneas fail to save three women (
Creusa, Cassandra, and Polyxena) in a row--thus building on the martial inadequacy of Virgil's Aeneas, who stands "unmanned" (44) after witnessing the murder of the patriarch Priam--Marlowe significantly deletes the extremely moving encounter between Aeneas and the ghost of
Creusa in Virgil.
In the second part, for example, Medea, the well-known mythical figure, kills the princess
Creusa by means of a poisoned dress simply because of her desire to take revenge on Jason who left her to marry the princess.
The example, drawn from the Greek tragedy Ion, discusses how
Creusa's cry calls the god Apollo to acknowledge an injustice he has committed against her and about which he has remained silent.