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