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Eros e pudor nella Tebaide di Stazio: lettura dell’episodio di Atys e Ismene (Theb. VIII 554-565)
2006-08-23T07:01:12Z
Abstract
In the eighth book of the Thebaid of Statius is set the episode of Atys and Ismene, that is a paradigmatic case of 'invention' of Statius and rewrite of the myth. Statius competes with the most different models, but he is inspired by a narrative cue in the Iliad and in the Aeneid, that of the young suitor who found dead before the wedding. A careful and conscious reading not escapes reminiscences from Apollonius Rhodius, Seneca, Ovid, testimony of sophisticated and complex art of the author.