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Il prologo di Marziano Capella
Schievenin, Romeo
2006
Abstract
The prologue of Martianus Capella's de nuptiis to the nuptial fabula (the marriage between Philologia and Mercurius) is constituted by a first part in verses, the hymn to Hymenaeus (an unicum in the ancient literature), followed by a second part in prose, a meta-literary dialogue with the homonym son, to which the work is dedicated. The subject, recalling Lucrece and Porphyry, delineates the cultural project of de nuptiis: a defense, and at the same time a new suggestion, of the pagan cultural tradition, where philology is the science, a critical method, under which the encyclios paideia has to be to gathered.
Series
Incontri triestini di filologia classica
5
Publisher
EUT - Edizioni Università di Trieste
Languages
it
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