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Figurações da paideia de Aquiles em vasos gregos (séculos VI-V a. C.): da família à polis

Publication . Figueira, Ana

Este capítulo reflecte sobre a noção de família mediante figurações da paideia de Aquiles em vasos gregos.

2024Book part

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The high potential of minor poetry: notes on Hosidius Geta's reworking of Vergil's Eclogues and Georgics

Publication . Silva, Gabriel A. F.

This article aims to explore how Hosidius Geta integrates lines of Vergil’s Eclogues and Georgics into his tragedy Medea, written in the form of a cento. I will try to show that Geta arranged the bucolic and georgic material in such a way that it works in a tragic text without generic dissonance. Departing from textual analysis of ll. 131-138 and 250-259 of the cento, I have sought to build on textual evidence to pinpoint how Geta used certain excerpts from the Eclogues and the Georgics and to explore the generic enrichment embedded in the reuse of these poems.

2024Journal article

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An unnoticed telestich in Virgil, Aeneid 8.246-9?

Publication . Silva, Gabriel A. F.

The aim of this short note is to highlight a possible, hitherto unnoticed, telestich in Verg. Aen. 8.246–9, which presents the Greek word SĒMA (‘portent’, ‘wonder’, ‘prodigy’, ‘tomb’). To justify this identification, I will argue for its significance from its context in the poem (the battle between Hercules and Cacus), pointing out the insistence on the imagery of light and revelation, and the use of the phrase mirabile dictu, which appears in the same episode of the Aeneid, in the Latin poetic tradition.

2024Journal article

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Medea in Apollonius of Rhodes' "Argonautica": the hidden meanings of a name and its epithets

Publication . Sousa, Ana Alexandra Alves de

This paper studies Medea’s role in the Argonautica of Apollonius of Rhodes by examining her epithets, as well as when and how many times her proper name is mentioned. The use of the Homeric epithets πολυφάρμακος and πολυκέρδης establishes a link with the Apollonius’ narrative which is totally different from what we have in Homer. Regarding the latter epithet, the meaning has undergone a change as a result of the new Hellenistic message. Besides these, another lemma occurs as an epithet, κακόν, when it is used as an appositive for Medea. These three Greek lemmas allow the reader to follow the character’s deeds from the point when she falls in love until she bewitches Talos. The lemma κακόν also provides information for foreseeing what Medea will become. The poet does not neglect to include in his narrative certain mythical signs which make the reader remember what he already knows. In fact, drama turned the unfortunate life of Medea as Jason’s wife into a very well-known story. From the meaning of this last epithet, κακόν, comes a compound noun that is a conventional epithet in Homer: ἀνδροφόνος, which is ascribed subtly to Medea and Jason in a critical way.

2025-03Book part

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Fecit curavit: a micro-contextual approach to epigraphic formulae and textual variation in latin inscriptions

Publication . Gaspar, Catarina

This study focuses on the role of Latin finite verbal forms that are part of the formulae of funerary Roman inscriptions. We aim to demonstrate that the final formula fecit curavit in one inscription, in Herdade da Camugem, Elvas, Portugal, is a substandard variant in the Latin language, as has been assumed by previous authors, and an epigraphic textual variation. However, this is a single example in Lusitania and ancient Hispania, which is otherwise known only from a monumental inscription in Corinth (AE 1947, n. 90). A micro-contextual approach explains the unusual sequence fecit curavit as a case of textual variation among the formulae in four other inscriptions in the same necropolis. Bearing in mind that the other epigraphic texts were found in the same place and the characteristics of the Roman epigraphic texts in the same region, we shall demonstrate that the usage of this formula might be explained on aesthetic grounds and the result of textual variation. Moreover, it signifies a cumulative rhetorical effect of finite verbal forms that express similar and correlated actions by the person who saw the erection of the epigraphic monument.

2025Book part

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