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Sui modelli della Venus uulgaria di Apuleio, apol. 12 (con un appunto su Iside-Luna, met. XI 1)
Marangoni, Claudio
2006
Abstract
The Venus of Apuleius is a "cultural cocktail" combining the Greek Aphrodite (the so-called Aphrodite Pandemos) and the Roman Venus. In accordance with the Platonic idea of the existence of two kinds of Venus (the Urania and the Pandemos), Apuleius inserts both reminiscences of the praise of Venus from the prologue of Lucretius' de Rerum Natura and borrowings from Varro’s discussion of the etymology of the name of Venus in his de lingua Latina.
Series
Incontri triestini di filologia classica
5
Publisher
EUT - Edizioni Università di Trieste
Languages
it
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