GENS AUREA THE „GOLDEN RACE“ PHANTASM IN VERGIL’S ECLOGUE 4 AND PLATO’S REPUBLIC 3 Cover Image

GENS AUREA ФАНТАЗАМ О „РОДУ ОД ЗЛАТА“ У ВЕРГИЛИЈЕВИМ ЕКЛОГАМА И У ПЛАТОНОВОЈ ДРЖАВИ
GENS AUREA THE „GOLDEN RACE“ PHANTASM IN VERGIL’S ECLOGUE 4 AND PLATO’S REPUBLIC 3

Author(s): Jelena N. Pilipović
Subject(s): Studies of Literature
Published by: Матица српска
Keywords: golden age; utopia; myth; polyphony; intertextuality; idyll; ideological; Plato; Virgil Maron's publication

Summary/Abstract: In the frame of his reinventing the golden age myth, Vergil (Eclogues 4.3-12) constructs the new golden race of men that is about to be born. Besides many other intersexual links, this phantasmal construction echoes also the „noble lie“ of Plato’s (Republic 414b‒415b), which presents a complex myth of autochthony and, within it, a particular vision of the men made out of gold. The paper explores hermeneutical fertility of this particular poeto-philosophical correspondence in decoding the flamboyant semantics of the Messianic eclogue.

  • Issue Year: 67/2019
  • Issue No: 2
  • Page Range: 341-354
  • Page Count: 24
  • Language: Serbian
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