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Giusti, Elena (2014) Virgil’s Carthaginians at A. 1.430-6: Cyclopes in bees’ clothing. Cambridge Classical Studies, 60 . pp. 37-58. doi:doi: 10.1017/S1750270514000013 ISSN 1750-2705 .
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Official URL: https://doi.org/10.1017/S1750270514000013
Abstract
Virgil’s poetry has long been recognised as delving into a poetics of comparison which employs sudden shifts from the miniature to the gigantic. So too have Virgilian similes long been singled out as a privileged locus where complex inter- and intra-textual allusions serve to highlight the primary role that these similes play in the narrative and poetic context of Virgil’s work. Along these lines, this paper addresses one such simile at Aeneid 1.430–6, where the Tyrians building Carthage are compared to busy bees working at their hive. The paper explores the impact that the recognition of the simile’s inter- and intra-textual connections may have on the interpretation of the scene of Aeneas’ arrival at Carthage, and on certain long-debated aspects of the poem as a whole.
Item Type: | Journal Article | ||||||
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Subjects: | P Language and Literature > PA Classical philology | ||||||
Divisions: | Faculty of Arts > Classics and Ancient History | ||||||
Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH): | Virgil, Carthage (Extinct city) -- In literature, Qarṭājannah (Tunisia) -- In literature, Cyclopes (Greek mythology) | ||||||
Journal or Publication Title: | Cambridge Classical Studies | ||||||
Publisher: | Cambridge University Press | ||||||
ISSN: | 1750-2705 | ||||||
Official Date: | 30 April 2014 | ||||||
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Volume: | 60 | ||||||
Page Range: | pp. 37-58 | ||||||
DOI: | doi: 10.1017/S1750270514000013 | ||||||
Status: | Peer Reviewed | ||||||
Publication Status: | Published | ||||||
Access rights to Published version: | Restricted or Subscription Access | ||||||
Date of first compliant deposit: | 21 November 2017 | ||||||
Date of first compliant Open Access: | 21 November 2017 |
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