MATOS, Manuel Cadafaz de. An approach to the labyrinth’s question within some diachronical movements of Hellenic inspiration (from Ovídios to Pausânias and from Bocaccio and Agricola to Valenborch). []. , 24, pp.123-168. ISSN 0874-1336.

Between the first and the XX centuries, the labyrinth had exerced a curious interest to a great number of European intellectuals, such us poets, like the Roman poet, Ovide (I century); the Hellenic thinker, Pausanias (II century); the Italian theorician of myths and writer, Giovanni Boccaccio (XIV century); or the Flemish erudit musical composer, Alexander Agricola (XV century). The author of this study, in a diachronic point of view, analyses also the contribution two Flemish painters in the XVI century, Lucas I van Valkenborch and Hans Bol, who, after suffering some years in the exile, has expressed, in their pictures, their feelings about the labyrinth and about the Daedale and Icare myths.

: classical mythology; labyrinth; greek philosophy; mimetic desire; mental construction.

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