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Amore, esibizione, partage: la storia di Candaule in Erodoto e nelle riletture moderne
No full textThis paper focuses upon the four main modern versions of the Herodotus's tale of Gyges and Candaules (La Fontaine, Gauthier, Hebbel, Gide). Through a comparative analysis of narrative structures, the lexical and thematic connections and differences with the model are outlined
Il fatale approdo dei cinque uomini su dieci navi: un enigma in Athen. X 457b
No full textAll the solutions of the riddle found in Athenaeus Deipnosophistae X 457b-c ("five men with ten ships landed at one place, / they did battle amidst stones, but no stone could be lifted; / for thirst they perished, but the water rose over the chin") suggested by ancient sources and few modern guesses don't seem very convincing. The explanation hereby proposed is the following: "five molluscs, probably mussels endowed with two black, long-shaped valves (similar in shape and chromatic impact to the hulls of the triremes caulked with pitch) are caught and reach the land. The molluscs-seamen are placed on burning coals (stones that cannot be lifted) and they die of thirst: because of the heat the valves open wide quickening the evaporation of the water contained inside of them, over their 'chin' or 'beard' (that is filaments of byssus)". The association mussels-ships had to be quite present in the Greek imagery, according to what we read in Aelian (NA XV 12)
(recens.) Luciano, Questioni d'amore, cur. E. Cavallini, intr. E. Degani, Venezia, 1991,
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Sull'esorcizzazione della morte nel teatro di Aristofane
No full textThe purpose of this paper is to examine the representation of death in Aristophanes' comedies, as a form of self-assertion of the comic hero, who discloses his aspiration for immortality by shifting the anguish of the death to inconsistent entities: the coal basket in the Acharnians, the gods in the Birds, or - as the protagonist of the Wasps imagines - his son's death, against the law of nature. A notable exception is the character of Strepsiades in the Clouds, marked by self-destructive traits
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