Citation

Pelliccia H. Classical Journal 2010; 106(2): 149-219.

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(Copyright © 2010)

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Abstract

Why does Virgil have Aeneas in his underworld encounter with Dido quote Catullus' translation of Callimachus' lighthearted Coma Berenices? Virgil alludes to a long and largely lost tradition of unwilling departure scenes that provided Callimachus with his own models and referents, chief among them, Euripides' Protesilaus, in which the title-character returned only for a day from the underworld to visit his wfe Laodamia and thus led her, grief-stricken to suicide.

Language: en