Elementi tragici nell episodio virgiliano di
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Scafoglio, Giampîero

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“…Od . 8.492–5), in the epic cycle it is Sinon who is left behind with the horse to accompany it into the walls and then signal the Greek troops to attack; see Scafoglio (2007). In the Bacchides, Sinon is called relictus at 938 and is referred to as handling a firebrand for signaling at 939f., suggesting that Plautus is familiar with this account of the siege.…”

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MYTH, LETTERS AND THE POETICS OF ANCESTRY IN PLAUTUS'BACCHIDES

Barbiero¹

2018

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The Plautine corpus contains five letter-plays, comedies in which epistles are composed, delivered and/or read onstage and figure as a major element of the plot. These embedded missives, both stolen and forged ex nihilo, are variously employed by the personae to enact deception and engender duplicitous maneuvering of epistolary conventions, as well as sophisticated jokes about literacy and the dynamics of the medium. The Bacchides features the most elaborate manifestation of this motif. A servus called Chrysalus schemes to facilitate the love affair between his erus minor, Mnesilochus, and the young man's beloved Bacchis. Bacchis resides at Athens with her sister, another hetaera likewise called Bacchis, whose name and affair with the Bacchides’ second adulescens, Pistoclerus, precipitate a misapprehension that causes the play to reset. Under the mistaken impression that Pistoclerus is in love with his own Bacchis, Mnesilochus returns the money Chrysalus has successfully filched from his father, Nicobulus, informing on the tricky slave and undoing his progress. Once the mistake is clarified, Mnesilochus prevails upon Chrysalus to invent a new ruse for getting the girl. The schemer uses epistles to do it all over again. His second round of tricks consists of a two-pronged stratagem in which he forges and delivers a pair of letters to Nicobulus allegedly from Mnesilochus. The missives serve to pilfer not one but two sums of gold from the old man, permitting Chrysalus and his younger master to both purchase Bacchis’ freedom from her contract with the miles and have some fun.

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MYTH, LETTERS AND THE POETICS OF ANCESTRY IN PLAUTUS'BACCHIDES

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Le cheval de Troie et le motif indo-européen de la triple mort au livre II de l’ Énéide de Virgile (v. 35-38)

Meulder¹

2021

Dialogues d'Histoire Ancienne

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Au livre II de l’ Énéide (v. 35-38), dans l’ordre donné à leurs compatriotes par certains Troyens dont Capys, de détruire le Cheval de Troie, Virgile semble faire référence au motif indo-européen de la triple mort, par crémation, par une arme, par noyade, motif qui n’est attesté ni par l’ Odyssée , ni par certains écrivains grecs qui reprennent l’épisode du célèbre Cheval. Malgré l’intervention du prêtre Laocoon et trompés par la fausse prophétie de Sinon, les Troyens n’exécuteront les guerriers grecs cachés dans le Cheval par aucune des trois morts.

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Elementi tragici nell episodio virgiliano di Sinone

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Le cheval de Troie et le motif indo-européen de la triple mort au livre II de l’ Énéide de Virgile (v. 35-38)

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