Philodemus, Catullus, and The Domina Di(n)dymi
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 21303692 |
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| Authors | Daniel Holmes (Sewanee: The University of the South, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2021 |
| Volume | 116 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 276-282 |
| Publication date | 2021-04-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Classical Philology (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0009-837X • E-ISSN: 1546-072X |
| Publisher | University of Chicago Press (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1086/712807 |
| OpenAlex | W3145834214 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 7 |
In both Catullus 63 and 35, Catullus refers to Cybele as the Domina Dindymi. I show that this epithet and noun collocation is only found in Catullus and argue that he purposely chose to replace the more usual “Mother of Dindymon” with “Mistress [Domina] of Dindymon” following a pun he had found in Philodemus (Epigram Sider 22), namely δίδυμοι = testicles. I then discuss the implications of this pun on the interpretation of Poems 63 and 35
Art · Collocation (remote sensing) · Epithet · Interpretation (philosophy) · Linguistics · Literature · Noun · Poetry · Pun · Classical Antiquity Studies · Computer Science · Organic Chemistry Synthesis Methods · Philosophy
| Highly cited | No |
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