Theocritus' Idyll 11
Perhaps the strangest feature of Theocritus’ Idyll 11 is the fact that the Hellenistic poet selects a mythological creature notorious for its barbarism and inhumanity, in order to validate his thesis that poetry is the only medicine for love, the most distinctively ennobling and human of all emotio...
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| Language: | Portuguese |
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Coimbra University Press
2023-06-01
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| Series: | Humanitas |
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| Online Access: | https://impactum-journals.uc.pt/humanitas/article/view/12461 |