Unlocking aeneid 6.460: Plautus’ amphitryon, Euripides’ protesilaus and the referents of Callimachus’ coma

• Hayden Pelliccia ^[1]
  1. [1] Cornell University

     Cornell University

     City of Ithaca, Estados Unidos

     
• Localización: Classical journal, ISSN 0009-8353, Vol. 106, Nº 2, 2011, págs. 149-219
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • Why does Virgil have Aeneas in his underworld encounter with Dido quote Catullus’ translation of Callimachus’ lighthearted Coma Berenices? Virgil alludes to a long and largely lost tradition of unwilling departure scenes that provided Callimachus with his own models and referents,chief among them,Euripides’ Protesilaus, in which the title-character returned only for a day from the underworld to visit his wife Laodamia, and thus led her, grief-stricken, to suicide.