VERGILIUS FLORENS: BLOSSOMING INTERTEXTS IN THE SPHRAGIS OF THE GEORGICS
VERGILIUS FLORENS: BLOSSOMING INTERTEXTS IN THE SPHRAGIS OF THE GEORGICS
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VERGILIUS FLORENS: BLOSSOMING INTERTEXTS IN THE SPHRAGIS OF THE GEORGICS
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Vergilian Society
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Vergilius (1959), 2020-01, Vol.66, p.69-86
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English
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The word florens as it appears at the end of the Georgics (4.564) activates a series of intertexts that invoke models of negotiated poetic authority and validate the poet’s literary ambitions. By invoking the Lucretian/Ennian figure of semper florens Homerus alongside the Apollonian Sirens, Vergil directs his readers toward Homer through two intert...
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VERGILIUS FLORENS: BLOSSOMING INTERTEXTS IN THE SPHRAGIS OF THE GEORGICS
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0506-7294
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