BOXING AND SACRIFICE APOLLONIUS, VERGIL, AND VALERIUS
2010; Harvard University Press; Issue: 105 Linguagem: Inglês
ISSN
2325-9353
Autores Tópico(s)Historical, Religious, and Philosophical Studies
ResumoThe athletic corpus contests of ancient and epic games.1 poetry Boxing contains features numerous prominently, accounts and of athletic contests and games.1 Boxi g features prominently, and there are occasional descriptions of other combat sports, such as wrestling or the fight under arms.2 This paper takes as its point of departure the description of two exponents of these sports presented by the cyclic poetsPhorbas the boxer and Cycnus the charioteer-cummonomachistand then concentrates on three narratives which have a particular claim to inform each other: the combat between Amycus and Pollux in book 2 of the Argonautica of Apollonius has since Servius been identified as the most important model for that between Dares and Entellus in book 5 of the Aeneid ,3 while the fourth book of Valerius Flaccus retells the Apollonian fight, but does so through language and motifs constantly reminiscent of Vergil's epic.4
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