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• Homer's First Battle Supplication and the End of Virgil's Aeneid

  53-66

  Lee Fratantuono

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  291

  One of the less appreciated literary influences on the Virgilian depiction of Aeneas' decision to slay Turnus at the end of the Aeneid is the first battle supplication scene in Homer's Iliad, the encounter of Adrestus with Menelaus and Agamemnon. Close consideration of Virgil's response to the Homeric scene sheds light on the poet's concerns in his presentation of the choice his Trojan hero Aeneas confronts in light of Turnus' appeal. Acrostics at the end of the Aeneid invite further reflection.

• Die Haut des Satyrs: Marsyas und Apollo

  39–51

  Ágnes Darab

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  205

  The essay proceeds from the observation that out of the surviving literature of antiquity only one poet, Ovid pays significant attention to the tragic fate of Marsyas. Both the Fasti and the Metamorphoses relate the tale. The narrative in Metamorphoses only focuses on the naturalistic description of the punishment, the flaying of Marsyas. The interpretation of this account within even wider contexts leads to the proposition that Marsyas’s tale is the self-reflection of the elegiac poet Ovid, and as such it becomes a key narrative within Metamorphoses.

• Textkritische und interpretatorische Überlegungen zu Catull. 55,9-12

  161–170.

  Heiko Ullrich

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  66

  Since the apparently corrupt passages in Catull. 55,9 and 11 respectively now hide the identity of the pessimae puellae in 55,10 a solution to the porblem is proposed by interpreting Ellis' reducta pectus in 11 as a description of a certain statue that may be that of the Greek poet Anyte or Telesilla, present in Pompey's portico according to the testimony of Tatian, whose names now hide behind the corrupt auelte sic ipse and could be restored to the direct address A Anyte et Telesilla.

• Saevus, Superbus - On the Use of Words by Horace and Virgil

  133–145.

  Flóra Imre

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  50

  This paper deals with Horace’s and Virgil’s use of two terms, saevus and superbus. On the basis of statistical and connotation studies, the paper concludes that, compared to contemporary poets, the use of these terms is slightly more frequent in both authors, and that they often appear in texts in contexts that give rise to surprising meanings: in the Aeneid on the relationship between the figure of Iuno and Aeneas, and in Horace’s carmina in relation to the Augustan regime. The text argues for a pessimistic reading of both authors.

• The early reception of the inconsistency between the two Palinurus episodes in Virgil’s Aeneid

  21–42.

  Dániel Kozák

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  70

  The paper investigates how ancient commentators and Roman poets recognized and reacted to the inconsistency between the two Palinurus episodes in Virgil’s Aeneid (5,833-871 and 6,337-383). First, I discuss how Servius and Tiberius Claudius Donatus, in their notes on 6,348, remove the inconsistency (regarding divine intervention) by assuming a punctuation different from the one adopted by all modern editors; however, while doing so, they both give rise to another inconsistency between Aeneas’ question and Palinurus’ answer. Second, I examine a passage from Statius’ biography of his father (Silvae 5,3,124–132), where the poet alludes to the Virgilian story apparently according to the version we read in Aeneid 6, but also creatively reproduces some elements of the Virgilian inconsistency. The last text discussed is Ovid’s Remedia amoris, where the poet recalls his vision of Amor Lethaeus at the temple of Venus Erycina; here again, elements of the Virgilian inconsistency are reproduced.