A Repeated Allusion to Pindar and the Eleusinian Mysteries in Anaxilas’ Comic Fragments?
A Repeated Allusion to Pindar and the Eleusinian Mysteries in Anaxilas’ Comic Fragments?
Author(s): Jerzy DanielewiczSubject(s): Language and Literature Studies
Published by: Uniwersytet Adama Mickiewicza
Keywords: Anaxilas; Pindar; allusive art; parody; jokes
Summary/Abstract: Anaxilas in fragments 25 and 30 K.-A. deliberately alluded to Pindar’s fragment 137 S.-M. and the mystery references it contains, but at the same time completely redesigned the sense of the Pindaric phrase for a strong comic effect.
Journal: Symbolae Philologorum Posnaniensium Graecae et Latinae
- Issue Year: XXXI/2021
- Issue No: 1
- Page Range: 79-83
- Page Count: 5
- Language: English