Abstract

The either poetical or visual image of two suns has played a role in displaying real, moral, and aesthetic eccentricities along literary and artistic history. The tradition started, as long as I know, with Euripides' Bacchae: line 918 shows this image for the first time and, with it, the real, moral, and aesthetic eccentricities appear. Later works will display some of these eccentricities, but not all of them together, as they appear in the Bacchae. This article analysis nine works in which the image of two suns is displayed, discussing the meaning of this image in the context of each work and comparing, then, the different meanings attached to this image in order to state what type of eccentricity each work represents and how these types of eccentricity tend to appear in specific eras.