Tragedy of Women in Power: La Araucana and Sixteenth-Century Neo-Senecan Theatre
Bibliographic record
Abstract
In cantos 32 and 33 of the third and final part of La Araucana, the narrator digresses from the matter of the Arauco War to recount the story of Queen Dido of Carthage in the anti-Virgilian, historiographic tradition whereby she was a chaste and prudent monarch who sacrificed herself for the good of her people. Ercilla’s version of Dido dialogues with contemporary Neo-Senecan tragedy, particularly two plays on the same subject: Cristóbal de Virués’s Elisa Dido (c. 1585) and Gabriel Lobo Lasso de la Vega’s La honra de Dido restaurada (1587). All three texts explore the tragedy that inevitably befalls commonwealths when women sit on the throne. We study these texts in light of the connections between epic and tragedy in Spanish letters of the late sixteenth century, the history and ideas surrounding women on the throne in early modern Spain, and the episodes of Ercilla’s poem that flank the Dido one.
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Full frame distilled prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one teacher head, not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".