Myth, drama and declamation, both Greek and Roman, share the theme of the young virgin requested by an oracle to be sacrificed in order to stop a pestilence. The contribution aims to analyze thoroughly the corpus of ancient school controversiae dealing with this subject, and to detect the debts of the declaimers towards the preceding literary tradition; in particular, it sheds light on the influence exercised by Euripides' Phoenician Women, and by the story of Menoeceus' self-sacrifice, on the treatment of the theme in school rhetoric. © 2018 Cappelli Editore. All rights reserved.
Lentano, M. (2018). «Onde si immolino tre vergini o più». Un motivo mitologico nella declamazione latina. MAIA, 70(1), 10-27.
«Onde si immolino tre vergini o più». Un motivo mitologico nella declamazione latina
Lentano, Mario
2018-01-01
Abstract
Myth, drama and declamation, both Greek and Roman, share the theme of the young virgin requested by an oracle to be sacrificed in order to stop a pestilence. The contribution aims to analyze thoroughly the corpus of ancient school controversiae dealing with this subject, and to detect the debts of the declaimers towards the preceding literary tradition; in particular, it sheds light on the influence exercised by Euripides' Phoenician Women, and by the story of Menoeceus' self-sacrifice, on the treatment of the theme in school rhetoric. © 2018 Cappelli Editore. All rights reserved.
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