Entre o passado e a contemporaneidade: o mito de Hero e Leandro em Pardalita

Abstract

In 2021, the publishing house Planeta Tangerina issued a new title, Pardalita, included in the juvenile collection Dois Passos e um Salto. This paper aims to analyse this work of juvenile fiction, written and illustrated by Joana Estrela, in the light of the myth of Hero and Leandro. Based on Ovid's Heroides and other references included in the work, we will reflect on the forms and dimensions in which the myth emerges and is updated, by specifically emphasizing the themes it raises and develops.