Allusion and Allegory: Studies in the >Ciris<

Boris Kayachev

Published by De Gruyter 2016

Allusion and Allegory

Studies in the >Ciris<

Boris Kayachev

Volume 346 in the series Beiträge zur Altertumskunde

https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110447767

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About this book

The Ciris has received a certain amount of scholarly attention during the twentieth century, but on the whole has failed to meet with an adequate appreciation. This book aims to vindicate the Ciris, mainly by exploring its use of pre-Virgilian poetic texts largely ignored in previous scholarship.

The core of the book consists of a discursive literary commentary, divided into chapters that examine consecutively the poem's main narrative units. Viewing allusion and allegory as intrinsic features of poetic composition rather than mere artistic devices, the book explores, among more prominent intertexts, Apollonius' Argonautica and Callimachus' Hecale, Lucretius and Catullus 64. Allusions are also suggested to Homer and Empedocles, Theocritus, Moschus, and Bion, Nicander and Euphorion, Choerilus of Samos and Asius of Samos, Ennius and Cicero. Through its intricate web of references to poetic intertexts, the Ciris, it is argued, creates an implicit allegorical pattern with an original poetological message.

Allusion and Allegory is thus the first book-length study to offer a coherent literary interpretation of this controversial poem.

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Boris Kayachev, University of Leeds, UK.

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	I
Acknowledgements Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	VII
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	IX
Introduction Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
1. The proem (lines 1‒100) Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	20
2. Beginning from the beginning (lines 101‒205) Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	55
3. The night episode (lines 206‒348) Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	92
4. Heroic deeds (lines 349‒385) Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	128
5. An epic voyage (lines 386‒477) Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	145
6. The metamorphosis (lines 478‒541) Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	173
Conclusion Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	209
Bibliography Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	212
Index of passages cited Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	224

(Deutsch)

Language: English
Publisher: De Gruyter
Audience: All those interested in Latin Literature.
Pages
- Front matter: 9
- Main content: 236

eBook

Published: August 8, 2016
ISBN: 9783110447767

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Published: August 8, 2016
ISBN: 9783110446814