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• Title:
  Obraz niedoli w pieśni weselnej, czyli epitalamia Drakoncjusza jako przykład jego nowatorstwa
• Creator:
  Cichoń, Natalia
• Contributor:
  Mgr Natalia Cichoń – graduated from Jagiellonian University with master’s degree in Classical Philology in 2014. In her thesis she analyzed the myth of the rape of Helen in Late Antiquity comparing Dracontius’ and Colluthus’ epyllia. Her interests are also focused on Greek and Roman epithalamia which built the subject of her Bachelor’s thesis. It represented the history of the epithalamic genre through a detailed analysis of Dracontius’ poems. She is also interested in poetry of Late Antiquity, and the culture of the barbarian world after the fall of Roman Empire, genre studies, theory of epyllion and the poetry of Sappho.
• Description:
  In this paper I examine Dracontius’ distinctiveness from other Latin and Greek poets writing epithalamia. He is not just another author of original wedding songs but surprises in many ways and can be found unusual even exploring a genre that did not have one well-defined model. To prove his unconventionality and uniqueness I firstly give a detailed analysis of both wedding songs by Dracontius I demonstrate the poet’s dependence upon earlier literature, explain the metaphors he used and discuss his reinterpretations of different themes introduced already by the poets before him. Then I add all my conclusions concerning Dracontius’ originality in comparison with his predecessors.
• Object availability:
  free access
• Rights:
  © Copyright by Uniwersytet Łódzki, Łódź 2015
• Date:
  2016.01.07;
  2015
• Type:
  Article
• Language:
  Polish
• Format:
  application/pdf
• Publisher:
  Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego
• Relation:
  Collectanea Philologica;18 (2015)
• Subject:
  Dracontius;
  epithalamium;
  Late Antiquity;
  Vandal Africa
• Identifier:
  1733-0319;
  http://hdl.handle.net/11089/16296 ;
  2353-0901;
  10.18778/1733-0319.18.07
• Data provider:
  Repozytorium Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego
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