Formosus in Virgilio e dintorni

• Authors: Gagliardi Paola

Title variants

EN

FORMOSUS IN VIRGIL AND ELSEWHERE

• Languages of publication: IT

Abstracts

EN

The epithet formosus, almost absent from Latin poetry before Virgil, is frequently employed in the Bucolics. This paper analyses some occurrences and some verse patterns in which it appears and compares Virgil’s use with instances in Propertius to suggest that formosus was a word associated with Gallus and hence used by Virgil in the context of a literary dialogue with him.

Keywords

EN

formosus; Virgil’s eclogues; Gallus; Propertius

Discipline

• PHILOLOGY_&_LINGUISTICS: PHILOLOGY & LINGUISTICS

• Publisher: Institute of Philosophy, Czech Academy of Sciences
• Journal: Eirene. Studia Graeca et Latina
• Year: 2015
• Volume: 51
• Issue: 1-2
• Pages: 45-58

Contributors

author

Gagliardi Paola