A Translation Note on Pseudo-Seneca, Her. O. 1907.
The passage from pseudo-Seneca, Hercules Oetaeus 1905-1908 describes how Hercules briefly replaced the Titan Atlas in his duties supporting the Sky. However, the poet refers to Olympus, characterizing it with an epithet that does not belong to a mountain but to the sky. In this way an equation is cr...
| Publicado en: | Mnemosyne Vol. 77; no. 3; pp. 513 - 522 |
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Brill Academic Publishers
2024
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