‘Most musicall, most melancholy’: Avian aesthetics of lament in Greek and Roman elegy
In this paper, I explore how Greek and Roman poets alluded to the lamentatory background of elegy through the figures of the swan and the nightingale. After surveying the ancient association of elegy and lament (Section I) and the common metapoetic function of birds from Homer onwards (Section II),...
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Université Lille-3
2019-11-01
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| Series: | Dictynna |
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| Online Access: | http://journals.openedition.org/dictynna/1914 |