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Una Fonte di Properzio 3.14 e le Origine Greche dell´ Elegia d´ Amore Romana

2008; Akademie-Verlag; Volume: 152; Issue: 2 Linguagem: Inglês

10.1524/phil.2008.0038

2196-7008

Carlo Martino Lucarini,

Linguistics and language evolution

Prop. 3.14 seems to take its main motif from a subgenre of Hellenistic erotic literature, the same on wich Athenaeus also drew for sections of Deipn. 13. This subgenre seems to be the source of the fictional epistolary exchange between Menander and Glycera in Alciphron and the Hellenistic fragment in hexameters in SH 495. This erotic production focused on the relationships between famous Athenian characters and some courtesans. This characterization of these lovers′ figures exhibits striking similarities with the Roman elegists′ representation of love, and many considerations suggest that Roman elegists drew extensively on this Hellenistic subgenre of erotic literature.