ATTIS ON OGYGIA: CATULLUS’ CARMEN 63 AND THE ODYSSEY
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Published:2021-04-16
Issue:1
Volume:71
Page:230-239
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ISSN:0009-8388
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Container-title:The Classical Quarterly
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language:en
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Short-container-title:The Class. Q.
Abstract
AbstractScholars have long noticed a similarity of motifs between Catullus’ Carmen 63 and the fifth book of the Odyssey, where the story of Odysseus’ captivity on Ogygia is narrated. A detailed analysis of the poems shows that Catullus wanted the reader to see in this Homeric episode a kind of matrix for the interpretation of Attis’ sojourn at Cybele. The discovery of this dependence casts a light on some of the hitherto proposed interpretations of Carmen 63.
Publisher
Cambridge University Press (CUP)
Subject
Literature and Literary Theory,Philosophy,History,Classics
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