TY - CHAP
T1 - SINE FUNERIS VLLO ARDET HONORE ROGUS
T2 - BURNING PYRES IN LUCAN AND SILIUS ITALICUS’ PVNICA
AU - Augoustakis, Antony
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
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PY - 2011
Y1 - 2011
N2 - This paper offers a discussion of the intertextual relationship between Lucan’s Cornelia and Silius Italicus’ Saguntine women. The act of metaphorical burial is exploited by both poets as a device to deconstruct and then reconstruct Roman identity. Silius exploits both sides of the Lucanian Cornelia, as both the monstrous and the sympathetic, the maenadic and the philosophical, to create a complex intertextual nexus with those mothers that historically precede but literarily follow Lucan’s epic.
AB - This paper offers a discussion of the intertextual relationship between Lucan’s Cornelia and Silius Italicus’ Saguntine women. The act of metaphorical burial is exploited by both poets as a device to deconstruct and then reconstruct Roman identity. Silius exploits both sides of the Lucanian Cornelia, as both the monstrous and the sympathetic, the maenadic and the philosophical, to create a complex intertextual nexus with those mothers that historically precede but literarily follow Lucan’s epic.
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U2 - 10.1163/9789004217096_010
DO - 10.1163/9789004217096_010
M3 - Chapter
AN - SCOPUS:84971373857
T3 - Brill's Companions to Classical Studies
SP - 185
EP - 198
BT - Brill's Companions to Classical Studies
PB - Brill
ER -