Love or war? erotic and martial poetics in claudian'S de raptu proserpinae

• Autores: Ruth Parkes
• Localización: Classical journal, ISSN 0009-8353, Vol. 110, Nº 4, 2015, págs. 471-492
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • This article treats genre, love, and violence in Claudian's De Raptu Proserpinae, with particular reference to the precedents of Ovid's Metamorphoses and Statius' Achilleid. The first part establishes the poem's varied generic voices (notably elegiac, epithalamic and martial epic). The second part ties the presence of competing martial and erotic voices to the poem's exploration of conflicting interpretations of the Dis-Proserpina union as exemplifying love or war. It highlights the potential for discord in the interpretation of the union as an example of love, especially in examples of symbols which can be approached from an epic perspective and from the elegiac or epithalamic sphere.