Eumolpus "Poeta", Eumolpus "Fabulator
"A Study of Characterization in the "Satyricon
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 3937868 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Roger Beck (corresponding author) |
| Year | 1979 |
| Volume | 33 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 239 |
| Publication date | 1979-01-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Phoenix (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0031-8299 • E-ISSN: 1929-4883 |
| Publisher | JSTOR (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.2307/1087435 |
| OpenAlex | W2320665159 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 28 |
THE CHARACTERIZATION OF THE POET EUMOLPUS in Petronius' Satyricon is a topic of some importance, since it impinges on the vexed question of the purpose of the work's two major poems, the Troiae halosis and Bellum civile, for which Eumolpus is cast in the role of ostensible composer. Are we supposed to take this attribution seriously and at face value, reading the poems as the expression of the man and of such talents as he possesses? Or is the poet's persona largely to be ignored and the poems (together with the disquisition on the composition of epic that precedes the Bellum civile) read essentially as Petronius' own literary contributions, whether offered in the vein of parody, literary tribute, or paradigm of proper composition? Of these two views the latter has perhaps predominated in the past.Its most recent, sensitive, and effective major exponent is J. P. Sullivan, who concludes that the Troiae halosis is a parody of Senecan tragedy while the Bellum civile is a serious attempt, albeit flawed in its execution, to remodel historical epic in a conservative Virgilian mould.2
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Senecan Drama and the Age of Nero
Post-Augustan Revisionism
Philosophers and the State under Nero
Nero in Hollywood
Petronius, Realism, Nero
Nero and the Senate
Nero’s Women
Seneca and the Quest for Glory in Nero’s Golden Age
Art and the Decadent City
Burning Rome, Burning Christians
Introduction
The Neronian “Symptom”
“Ain’t Sayin’”
Lucan’s Civil War in Nero’s Rome
Nero’s Memory in Flavian Rome
Staging Nero
Resurgences of Nero in the Enlightenment
Nero the Performer
Nero
Nero’s Imperial Administration
La Troiae Halosis
The Cambridge Companion to the Age of Nero
Petronius and the Anatomy of Fiction
Eumolpo, Gitão e Encólpio
The People as a Collective Character in the Story of the Widow of Ephesus (Petronius, Satyrica 111-112)
The Romance of the Novel
Rivers and Rivalry in Petronius, Horace, Callimachus, and Aristophanes
Seductions of art
| Unique citing works | 28 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,85 |
| Citation span | 1993 - 2022 (30) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 28 |