Farsalia en la Cólquide. Acerca de dos símiles lucaneos en el libro VI de las Argonáuticas de Valerio Flaco

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  • Antonio Río Torres-Murciano Universidad de Santiago de Compostela

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.3989/emerita.2006.v74.i2.15

Keywords:

epic, Valerius Flaccus, Lucan, similes

Abstract


Traditionally, the war in Colchis, which Valerius introduces in book VI of his Argonautica, has been believed to point out the appropiation by the Flavian epicist of the martial epic indebted to Homer’s Iliad as well as to the last six books of Vergil’s Aeneid. Nevertheless, Valerius emphasizes the presence of Lucan’s Bellum Civile in his own epic by means of two similes (VI 168-70, 402-6) whose interpretation calls into question a strictly homeric and/or vergilian reading of book VI.

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Published

2006-12-30

How to Cite

Río Torres-Murciano, A. (2006). Farsalia en la Cólquide. Acerca de dos símiles lucaneos en el libro VI de las Argonáuticas de Valerio Flaco. Emerita, 74(2), 201–216. https://doi.org/10.3989/emerita.2006.v74.i2.15

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