Two Examples of Deliberate Use of Hysteron Proteron in Vergil’s Early Poems (Verg. Buc. VI, 42 and Georg. III, 60–61)
Abstract
This paper analyses Vergil’s use of hysteron proteron in Buc. VI, 42 and Georg. III, 60–61. It is shown that in both cases hysteron proteron appears as a stylistic figure: Vergil consciously models his hexameter after one of the stock examples of hysteron proteron in Homer (Verg. Buc. VI, 42 ~ Hom. Il. III, 100; Verg. Georg. III, 60 ~ Hom. Il. 3, 40), while doing his best to mask the disruption of logical order inherent to the very nature of the phenomenon. Thus, the two passages give the reader a glimpse of Vergil’s poetic laboratory: Vergil, who was well acquainted not only with Homeric epics, but also with the Alexandrian scholarship, takes into account Greek poetic and philological practices, while searching for his own poetic voice.
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hysteron proteron, Vergil, Homer, Alexandrian scholarship
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Bassett S.E. Ὓστερον πρότερον Ὁμηρικῶς (Cicero, Att. I, 16, 1). Harvard Studies in Classical Philology. 1920. Vol. 31. Pp. 39–62.
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Nünlist R. The Ancient Critic at Work: Terms and Concepts of Literary Criticism in Greek Scholia. Cambridge; New York; Melbourne, Cambridge University Press, 2009.
Nutting H.C. Hysteron-Proteron. Classical Journal. 1916. Vol. 11. P. 298–301.
Page T.E. Notes on Virgil, Aeneid 2, 353 and Eur. Bacchae 506. Classical Review. 1894. Vol. 8. Pp. 203–204.
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Richardson N.J. Literary Criticism in the Exegetical Scholia to the Iliad : A Sketch. Classical Quarterly. 1980. Vol. 30. Pp. 265–287.
Schlunk R. The Homeric Scholia and the Aeneid: A Study of Ancient Homeric Literary Criticism on Vergil. Ann Arbor, University of Michigan Press, 1974.
Schmit-Neuerburg T. Vergils Aeneis und die antike Homerexegese: Untersuchungen zum Einfluß ethischer und kritischer Homerrezeption auf imitation und aemulatio Vergils. Berlin; New York, W. de Gruyter, 1999.
Segal Ch. Vergil’s Sixth Eclogue and the Problem of Evil. Transactions and Proceedings of the American Philological Association. 1969. Vol. 100. Pp. 407–435.
Stewart Z. The Song of Silenus. Harvard Studies in Classical Philology. 1959. Vol. 64. P. 179–205.
Torzi I. Ratio et Usus: Dibattiti antichi sulla dottrina delle figure. Milano, Vita e pensiero, 2000.
Wilkinson L.P. The Georgics of Virgil. Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 1969.
Willcock M.M. The Iliad of Homer. Vol. 1. Hampshire; London, Macmillan Education Limited, 1978.
Zaffagno E. Hysteron proteron. Enciclopedia Virgiliana. Vol. 2. Roma, Istituto della Enciclopedia Italiana, 1985. Pp. 871–874.
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Kazanskaya, M. (2015). Two Examples of Deliberate Use of Hysteron Proteron in Vergil’s Early Poems (Verg. Buc. VI, 42 and Georg. III, 60–61). Philologia Classica, 10, 151–166. Retrieved from https://philclass.spbu.ru/article/view/7584
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