Empedoclean epic: how far can you go?

Empedoclean epic: how far can you go?

This paper attempts to take one step further the argument of P.R. Hardie’s 1995 article in Classical Quarterly, entitled ‘The Speech of Pythagoras in Ovid Metamorphoses 15: Empedoclean Epos’, by showing that Lucan can be fitted easily into a version of Latin literary history that privileges the pres...

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Published in:Dictynna Vol. 11
Main Author: D. P. Nelis
Format: Journal Article
Language:German
Published: Université Lille-3 01-12-2014
Subjects:
allusion
Empedocles
epic tradition
intertextuality
Lucan
reception
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Summary:This paper attempts to take one step further the argument of P.R. Hardie’s 1995 article in Classical Quarterly, entitled ‘The Speech of Pythagoras in Ovid Metamorphoses 15: Empedoclean Epos’, by showing that Lucan can be fitted easily into a version of Latin literary history that privileges the presence of recurring Empedoclean influence.
ISSN:1969-4202
1969-4202