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COWHERD OR ATHLETE: AEGON'S AMBIGUOUS STATUS AND THE EROTICS OF GENRE IN THEOCRITUS IDYLL 4

2014; Classical Association of Canada; Volume: 68; Issue: 1-2 Linguagem: Inglês

10.1353/phx.2014.0050

1929-4883

Alexandros Kampakoglou,

Organic Chemistry Synthesis Methods

This paper argues that in Idyll 4 Theocritus interacts with epinician poetry and embeds at lines 32–37 a bucolic epinician in honor of Aegon, the boukolos who decided to compete in the Olympic Games. Furthermore, it demonstrates that Corydon and Battus allude to epinician conventions in their evaluation of Aegon's character.