The loss of innocence Catullan intertexts in Vergil's eclogue 8 and the Camilla episode of the Aeneid /
In ancient Rome, some elements of the wedding ritual (e.g. the raptio or the defloration) could be associated with aggression and death. In Catullus 62 and 66 – two poems dealing with the topic of marriage –, these connotations get a special emphasis, in part due to the motif of cutting symbolizing...
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University of Szeged
Szeged
2021
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| Sorozat: | Sapiens ubique civis
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| Kulcsszavak: | Klasszika-filológia, Latin irodalom - költészet |
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| doi: | 10.14232/suc.2020.1.121-139 |
| Online Access: | http://acta.bibl.u-szeged.hu/74858 |
| Tartalmi kivonat: | In ancient Rome, some elements of the wedding ritual (e.g. the raptio or the defloration) could be associated with aggression and death. In Catullus 62 and 66 – two poems dealing with the topic of marriage –, these connotations get a special emphasis, in part due to the motif of cutting symbolizing violence and changing. In this paper, I examine the way the above mentioned poems constitute the background for the allusion to Medea in Vergil’s Eclogue 8 and the depiction of Camilla in Book 11 of the Aeneid. It will be of fundamental importance to observe the way aggressiveness – being a traditional characteristic of men – gets transferred to women, by means of intertextual connections. |
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| Terjedelem/Fizikai jellemzők: | 121-139 |
| ISSN: | 2732-317X |