Callimachean Influence on Vergilian Etymological Wordplay
2001; Classical Association of the Middle West and South; Volume: 96; Issue: 4 Linguagem: Inglês
ISSN
2327-5812
Autores Tópico(s)Historical and Literary Studies
Resumowordplay in Vergil, which often cites Callimachus, but never provides coherent treatment of the influence of Callimachus on Vergilian etymological wordplay.' Here I both gather together all examples of Callimachean influence from the book, and also present more supporting evidence and more examples, some from my own further research, some from a considerable amount of scholarship that has appeared or come to my notice only since I read proof on the book. For the reader's convenience, examples, pieces of evidence, and bibliography not found in True Names are marked with an asterisk (*); in the interest of economy not all supporting evidence from the book is repeated here. The paper is in some respects a mirror image of a earlier study in Classical Journal that collected and analyzed passages in which Ovid comments on or is influenced by Vergilian etymologizing.2 To trace now the influence of Callimachus on Vergilian etymological wordplay is a more difficult task, given our limited and difficult fragments of Callimachus, but still, perhaps something can be accomplished. I paid some attention to this topic in the book, but in the final stages of working on the manuscript and proofs, it often seemed that some references to Callimachus were more important and more interesting than I was making clear, or that I had not quite pressed the evidence hard
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