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Ironia e iperbole nell’immaginario epico di Ovidio
2006-08-23T06:55:48Z
Abstract
According to the vision of Griffin (The epic cycle and the uniqueness of Homer, «Journ. Hell. St.» XCVII, 1977, 39ff.) the heroic world of the Iliad is selective and excludes the characters that refer to the wonderful, the magic, the hyperbolic. In the Odyssey after the episode of Ciconians, Ulysses ends off course not only with respect to Ithaca, but to the whole heroic world of the Iliad. Ovid, in his ‘Iliad’ (met. XII 1 – XIII 622), takes the epos away from the story, because the epos of Rome, which has a universal character, can accommodate and monitor, without shakes, the categories of exotic and incredible. This feature of the poem can be read from a thematic and typological point of view, and, in a more fully way, with the intertextual analysis.
Series
Polymnia. Studi di Filologia Classica 2
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