Catullus and the tragedy of Ariadne
The well‐known allusions to tragic prologues in the proem to Catullus 64 raise questions about the generic relationships between tragedy, epic and epyllion which encourage the reader of the poem to see the entire ecphrasis of Ariadne as a tragedy. As Catullus presents it, Ariadne’s story has a scene...
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Revue Mosaïque
2009
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