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Record Nr.

UNISA996234749803316

Autore

Kayachev Boris

Titolo

Allusion and allegory : studies in the Ciris / / Boris Kayachev

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Berlin, [Germany] ; ; Boston, [Massachusetts] : , : De Gruyter, , 2016

©2016

ISBN

3-11-044712-6

3-11-044776-2

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (248 p.)

Collana

Beiträge zur Altertumskunde, , 1616-0452 ; ; Band 346

Classificazione

FX 178705

Disciplina

871.01

Soggetti

Allusions in literature

Mythology, Classical, in literature

Narrative poetry, Latin - History and criticism

LITERARY CRITICISM / Ancient & Classical

Rome In literature

Rome (Empire)

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Frontmatter -- Acknowledgements -- Contents -- Introduction -- 1. The proem (lines 1‒100) -- 2. Beginning from the beginning (lines 101‒205) -- 3. The night episode (lines 206‒348) -- 4. Heroic deeds (lines 349‒385) -- 5. An epic voyage (lines 386‒477) -- 6. The metamorphosis (lines 478‒541) -- Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Index of passages cited

Sommario/riassunto

The Ciris has received a certain amount of scholarly attention during the twentieth century, but on the whole has failed to meet with an adequate appreciation. This book aims to vindicate the Ciris, mainly by exploring its use of pre-Virgilian poetic texts largely ignored in previous scholarship. The core of the book consists of a discursive literary commentary, divided into chapters that examine consecutively the poem's main narrative units. Viewing allusion and allegory as intrinsic features of poetic composition rather than mere artistic devices, the book explores, among more prominent intertexts, Apollonius' Argonautica and Callimachus' Hecale, Lucretius and



Catullus 64. Allusions are also suggested to Homer and Empedocles, Theocritus, Moschus, and Bion, Nicander and Euphorion, Choerilus of Samos and Asius of Samos, Ennius and Cicero. Through its intricate web of references to poetic intertexts, the Ciris, it is argued, creates an implicit allegorical pattern with an original poetological message. Allusion and Allegory is thus the first book-length study to offer a coherent literary interpretation of this controversial poem.