VERGILIUS-ALLÚZIÓK LUCANUSNÁL
VIRGILIAN ALLUSIONS OF LUCAN
Author(s): János NagyillésSubject(s): History, Studies of Literature, Ancient World, Philology
Published by: Akadémiai Kiadó
Keywords: intertextuality; imitatio; aemulatio; relationship of Lucan and Virgil; Pharsalia as AntiAeneid; Pharsalia 9; 1-108;
Summary/Abstract: The research interprets the textual references of Pharsalia based on the presupposition that the epic aims to emulate and reinterpret (in an anti-Virgilian and anti-Ovidian way) Virgil’s Aeneid (sometimes even Georgics and his eclogues) and Ovid (especially Metamorphoses). Allusions can be revealed on higher structural and lexical levels of the poem. The allusions of the first section can draw attention to Aeneid’s prologue by being placed in the book of Pharsalia of the same number. The prologues themselves can also refer to other texts and raise the question whether the poet wanted to refer to only one of the prologues or both, and if yes, what kind of correspondence of the two prologues he perceived. The paper reveales and comments the allusions of Virgil in Pharsalia 9, 1—108, with other supposed archetypes involved in the survey.
Journal: Antik Tanulmányok
- Issue Year: 49/2005
- Issue No: 1-2
- Page Range: 59-95
- Page Count: 37
- Language: Hungarian
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