The episode of the translatio of Aesculapius to Rome (parallel to that of the Magna Mater in the Fasti) could be interpreted in terms of poetics of closure, as the last act of a series of arrivals from Greece to Rome. It exhibits a rich texture of intra- and intertextual connections (with Vergil’s Aeneid). At the same time, it is a prefiguration in republican history of Augustus as saviour. Some details, however, suggest a more complex reading, comparable to that of the preceding episode of Cipus.
Galasso, L., Arrivare a Roma in tempo di epidemia: Esculapio nelle Metamorfosi di Ovidio, in Centro e periferia nella letteratura latina di Roma imperiale, (Udine (modalità telematica), 14-16 January 2021), Forum Editrice Universitaria Udinese S.r.l., Udine 2021: 303-327 [http://hdl.handle.net/10807/182860]
Arrivare a Roma in tempo di epidemia: Esculapio nelle Metamorfosi di Ovidio
Galasso, Luigi
2021
Abstract
The episode of the translatio of Aesculapius to Rome (parallel to that of the Magna Mater in the Fasti) could be interpreted in terms of poetics of closure, as the last act of a series of arrivals from Greece to Rome. It exhibits a rich texture of intra- and intertextual connections (with Vergil’s Aeneid). At the same time, it is a prefiguration in republican history of Augustus as saviour. Some details, however, suggest a more complex reading, comparable to that of the preceding episode of Cipus.
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