In this paper I propose an interpretation of the sentence Ab Ioue principium Musae (Verg. ecl. 3,60) as deliberately ambiguous between its two possible meanings (“From Juppiter the beginning, Muses” or “From Juppiter the beginning of the song”). Thanks to this syntactical ambiguity Vergil alludes both to Theocr. 17,1 and Cic. Arat. fr. 1 Soub., both of which rewrote the incipit of Aratus’ Phaenomena looking at its Hesiodic hypotext.
Virgilio, ecl. 3,60: ambiguità sintattica e arte allusiva
PELLACANI, DANIELE
2014
Abstract
In this paper I propose an interpretation of the sentence Ab Ioue principium Musae (Verg. ecl. 3,60) as deliberately ambiguous between its two possible meanings (“From Juppiter the beginning, Muses” or “From Juppiter the beginning of the song”). Thanks to this syntactical ambiguity Vergil alludes both to Theocr. 17,1 and Cic. Arat. fr. 1 Soub., both of which rewrote the incipit of Aratus’ Phaenomena looking at its Hesiodic hypotext.File in questo prodotto:
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