Le paysage des offrandes votives chez Léonidas de Tarente
This paper offers an analysis of references to landscapes in Leonidas' epigrams. A comparison with Demetrius' paragraphs on enargeia enables us to shed light on the stylistics of his votive epigrams. Leonidas developed a series of strategies that encouraged his readers to visualize the lan...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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Anthropologie et Histoire des Mondes Antiques
2017-03-01
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| Series: | Cahiers Mondes Anciens |
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| Online Access: | http://journals.openedition.org/mondesanciens/1911 |
| Summary: | This paper offers an analysis of references to landscapes in Leonidas' epigrams. A comparison with Demetrius' paragraphs on enargeia enables us to shed light on the stylistics of his votive epigrams. Leonidas developed a series of strategies that encouraged his readers to visualize the landscapes in which the votive offerings that he describes supposedly took place ; one of these techniques consists in referring to an internal viewer. By studying these techniques, we also gain a better understanding of the reasons for which Roman readers of Leonidas' epigrams admired his poems and quoted them : specific emphasis is given to Propertius' translation of AP 9.337 and to the painted inscriptions discovered in the Casa degli Epigrammi (Pompeii) and in Suasa. |
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| ISSN: | 2107-0199 |