Ziogas, I. (2010) 'The permanence of Cupid's Metamorphosis in the Aeneid.', Trends in classics., 2 (1). pp. 150-174.
Abstract
Cupid morphs into Ascanius in Aeneid 1 and I argue that this transformation invests Ascanius with erotic qualities that are essential to understanding the boy's role in the Aeneid. Vergil deliberately blurs the distinction between Ascanius and Cupid, inviting the readers to draw a parallel between Aeneas' son and Aeneas' brother. Ascanius' Cupid-like features generically enrich Vergil's epic with the language and motifs of elegiac poetry. The intrusion of Cupid, the patron deity of Roman love elegy, into Vergil's epic opens an intriguing dialogue between two genres that are supposedly mutually exclusive.
| Item Type: | Article |
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| Full text: | (VoR) Version of Record Download PDF (182Kb) |
| Status: | Peer-reviewed |
| Publisher Web site: | http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/tcs.2010.007 |
| Publisher statement: | The final publication is available at www.degruyter.com |
| Date accepted: | No date available |
| Date deposited: | 24 November 2016 |
| Date of first online publication: | 2010 |
| Date first made open access: | No date available |
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