Callimachus, Lucretius, and Didactic Elements in Vergil's Aeneid-Proem.
The article presents the two Homeric poems arguing the entire Aeneid-proem which being a self-conscious reworking of the proems both to the Iliad and the Odysse. Topics include focusing on opening lines of the poem programmatically expanding one's horizon of expectation for the epic genre; and broad...
| Published in: | Classical Philology Vol. 115; no. 4; pp. 727 - 737 |
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University of Chicago Press
Oct2020
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| Summary: | The article presents the two Homeric poems arguing the entire Aeneid-proem which being a self-conscious reworking of the proems both to the Iliad and the Odysse. Topics include focusing on opening lines of the poem programmatically expanding one's horizon of expectation for the epic genre; and broadcasting an association with the didactic tradition of natural philosophy interpretting in antiquity as originating in the two Homeric poems. |
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