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Stories of Scylla and Charybdis in Homer and Vergil (Italian)

Authors :
Pietro Li Causi
Source :
SSRN Electronic Journal.
Publication Year :
2007
Publisher :
Elsevier BV, 2007.

Abstract

A comparison between Odyssey's book 12 and Aeneis' book 3 shows some similarities in the handling of the myth: Scylla and Charybdis are hidden creatures, which the reader of both the poems can glimpse only behind the veil of the description of the seers Elenus and Circe. In the Vergilian version, however, there are traces of the rationalizations of the myth operated by Sallust and Lucrece.

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Subjects :
Literature
Charybdis
Poetry
Creatures
biology
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Mythology
Art
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ISSN :
15565068
Database :
OpenAIRE
Journal :
SSRN Electronic Journal
Accession number :
edsair.doi...........bc399642ffe9c5658043effa5c93f9e4
Full Text :
https://doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.1329632
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