1990
DOI: 10.1017/s0009838800043044
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The Death of Priam: Allegory and History in the Aeneid

Abstract: The true relation between these scenes and historic fact is more mysterious and less simple. The metamorphosis takes place on a higher plane. Historic events and the poet's inner experience are stripped of everything accidental and actual. They are removed from time and transported into the large and distant land of Myth. There, on a higher plane of life, they are developed in symbolic and poetic shapes having a right to an existence of their own. The fact, therefore, that the subjection of the storm is descri… Show more

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“…46 Servius also found the need to explain litus, not very convincingly, as a way of saying 'ground'. 47 Bowie (1990). 45 Servius' interpretation evokes the rhetorical sense of metalepsis as a reference through the transferred meaning of words.…”
Section: Death and Epic: Polites And Priammentioning
confidence: 99%
“…46 Servius also found the need to explain litus, not very convincingly, as a way of saying 'ground'. 47 Bowie (1990). 45 Servius' interpretation evokes the rhetorical sense of metalepsis as a reference through the transferred meaning of words.…”
Section: Death and Epic: Polites And Priammentioning
confidence: 99%
“…En lo que VidalNaquet ha profundizado al comparar, como hemos dicho, la tragedia con un "espejo roto". Y ello lo formula al recordar lo que Angus Bowie (1990) ha denominado filtros trágicos de la historia:…”
Section: El "Espejo Roto" Que Refleja a La Ciudadunclassified
“…En lo que Vidal-Naquet ha profundizado al comparar, como hemos dicho, la tragedia con un "espejo roto". Y ello lo formula al recordar lo que Angus Bowie (1990) ha denominado filtros trágicos de la historia: Y cada fragmento remite a la vez a una realidad social y a todas las restantes, mezclando estrechamente los distintos códigos: espaciales, temporales, sociales, económicos.…”
Section: El "Espejo Roto" Que Refleja a La Ciudadunclassified