f Reificações da descriptio pulchritudinis puellae na Crónica Troiana

In this brief article, I aim to show how the depiction of women in the Crónica troiana (the Galician version of Benoît de Sainte Maure’s Roman de Troie) are built according to the topos of the descriptio pulchritudinis puellae. Within this focus, then, the principal characteristics of this topos as defined by medieval grammarians (i.e., Matthieu de Vendôme and Geoffroi de Vinsauf) are sketched; this is followed by a study of the image of women in the Crónica troiana, in particular that of Polixena. A further support for the study of this image and its assimilation to rhetorical principles is found in a diachronic and comparative analysis of the Priam’s youngest daughter in the epitome of Dares Phrygius, in the Roman de Troie and in the Crónica troiana.