The purpose of this note is to enlighten an unnoticed reprise of Prudentius’ Dittochaeon in Arator’s Historia apostolica, which could enrich the dossier of Arator’s literary models and represent a peculiar case of interplay between biblical hypotext and poetic intertext in the poem.
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Cf. Green, Latin Epics, 307. The biblical verse was since Tertullian (Scorp. 13, 1; adv. Marc. 5, 1, 5) regularly referred to Paul (so rightly Schwind, Arator-Studien, 129, n. 149), but such a quotation seems unparalleled in poetry.
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The purpose of this note is to enlighten an unnoticed reprise of Prudentius’ Dittochaeon in Arator’s Historia apostolica, which could enrich the dossier of Arator’s literary models and represent a peculiar case of interplay between biblical hypotext and poetic intertext in the poem.
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Abstract Views | 182 | 42 | 13 |
Full Text Views | 187 | 2 | 0 |
PDF Views & Downloads | 39 | 11 | 2 |