- I miei scritti su Plutarco
- Angelo Casanova
Reminiscenze di poeti arcaici nella Vita di Teseo
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- DOI: 10.36253/979-12-215-0824-6.23
Plutarch’s Life of Theseus is moulded on the pattern of the best-known myths celebrated by Attic tragedy and recorded by the Atthidographers. He sets no store by the outlandish and hardly credible versions appearing in archaic poetry. There are very few quotations from choral poets: two from Simonides, one from Pindar; none from Bacchylides or Alcman and Stesichorus, though they had devoted a great deal of attention to Theseus’ myth. A few, sternly critical, hints refer to the epic tradition as represented by the Theseid and Ps.-Hesiod (Aigimius), as well as to some disputed lines from the Iliad and the Odyssey. No heed whatever is taken of the Epic Cycle. There is only a brief polemical recollection of some hexameters stemming from the Megaric tradition, quoted by the ‘historian’ Ereas of Megara.
- Keywords:
- Life of Theseus,
- archaic Greek poets,
- Simonides,
- Pindar,
- Theseid,
- post-Homeric epic,
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Chapter Title
Reminiscenze di poeti arcaici nella Vita di Teseo
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Language
Italian
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10.36253/979-12-215-0824-6.23
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2025
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Book Title
I miei scritti su Plutarco
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Raccolti, riveduti e corretti con bibliografia unificata
Authors
Angelo Casanova
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Number of Pages
366
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2025
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Firenze University Press
DOI
10.36253/979-12-215-0824-6
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979-12-215-0823-9
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Studi e saggi
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2704-6478
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2704-5919