¿El último tango en Paros? Hacia un cambio de perspectiva en la lectura del fragmento 196 A (W) de Arquíloco

Abstract

In 1960, among the mantles surrounding an Egyptian mummy, the longest fragment attributed to Archilochus (fr. 196A West), known as the Colono´s Epod, was discovered. Given the erotic theme, scholars of the fragment gave it the nickname “The last tango in Paros”, a play on words between the homeland associated with the Greek poet, the island of Paros, and the Franco-Italian film “The last tango in Paris”, directed by Bernardo Bertolucci. In 1974 the first edition, translation and commentary on the text by Merkelbach and West came to light, from that moment on the text was interpreted through androcentric visions that discussed, among other things, the various possibilities in which the sexual encounter between an adult man and a teenager, narrated by Archilochus, could have ended. The present work turns the gaze to the silenced side of the fragment and proposes a change of perspective.