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Large and illyrical waters in Vergil's Eighth Eclogue.
- Source :
- Hermathena; Winter2002/Summer2003, Issue 173/174, p165-173, 9p
- Publication Year :
- 2002
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Abstract
- Traces Vergil's engagement with Callimachean poetic metaphors in Eclogue 8. Relevance of lines 6-13 to the poem as a whole; Information on the dedicatory verses that reveal a fairly intense interest in literary genres; Encounter with tragedy in the reference to the addressee's Sophoclean verse.
- Subjects :
- METAPHOR
POETRY (Literary form)
LITERARY form
TRAGEDY (Drama)
Subjects
Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 00180750
- Issue :
- 173/174
- Database :
- Supplemental Index
- Journal :
- Hermathena
- Publication Type :
- Academic Journal
- Accession number :
- 16773594