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Bella per Emathios plus quam civilia campos (Luc. 1. 1): The Role and Consequences of a Geographical Inaccuracy
Desde el primer verso de su poema, Lucano prefiere situar la guerra civil que está describiendo en Ematia, en lugar de Tesalia. Esta elección alude a las hijas de Piero, que se transformaron en urracas. La referencia de ...
Cohortatio-topoi in the description of the battle of actium in Vergil's aeneid
(2018)
In his description of the naval battle of Actium depicted on Aeneas' new shield Vergil implicidy echoes the anticipated pre-battle rhetoric of Octavian. The epic poet seems to be in-fluenced by the relevant historiographical ...
Persius on his predecessors: A re-examination.
(2005)
The practice of satirists like Persius referring to their predecessors Lucilius, Horace and the like by name, serves not only as a means pf paying tribute to the creator of the particular literary genre, but also as a ...