Sobre Virg., Buc. 4.18-25, puer nascens, y la tradición de la écfrasis en Roma

Abstract

The aim of this paper is to apply, as a way of interpretation of Virgil’s Fourth Bucolic, verses 18-25, the idea that one of his “inspiration” sources could have been the visual and iconic universe in which the poet flourished. Taking into account the argumentation about different types of ekphraseis, we try to define what we call “implicit ekphrasis”, that is, a kind of ekphrasis not produced by isolated artistic objects, but another one based on concepts, in order to apply it to our verses commentary. The results could allow us to say that the icons which, at Rome, symbolized aeternitas, aurea aetas, felicitas temporum, tempora anni, etc., permit the poet (among other inspiration sources) to build his message of a better time through the puer nascens’s metaphor.