Parallelism in Plautus
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https://doi.org/10.3989/emerita.1985.v53.i1.688Abstract
This article begins by noting that in classical Hebrew poetry there is parallelism of three distinct kinds which were first discussed by Robert Lowth in 1753: synonymous parallelism (the commonest type), consisting in the simple repetition of the same thought in slightly different words; antithetical parallelism, produced by contrasting the first member with the second; synthetic parallelism, in which the first member is developed or completed by a similar thought in the second (or third, when it is triplets which are in question). This phenomenon of Hebrew poetry is found frequently in early Latin poetry but has not yet been specifically recognised. The article examines two plays by Plautus and quotes numerous other instances at large from archaic Latin poets to establish the point.
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1985-06-30
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MacL. Currie, H. (1985). Parallelism in Plautus. Emerita, 53(1), 81–91. https://doi.org/10.3989/emerita.1985.v53.i1.688
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