Wergiliusz jako twórca labiryntu
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2011
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Wydawnictwo Poznańskiego Towarzystwa Przyjaciół Nauk
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Vergil as a creator of labyrinth
Vergilius labyrinthi inventor
Vergilius labyrinthi inventor
Abstract
Vergil described his opus magnum, Aeneis, within the poem itself - as a temple’s door ecphrasis. By introducing
Daedalus’ narrative into the main narrative, he set a bunch of signs of identity, both biographical and
textual, between himself and the ancient inventor, in order to show the analogous identity between Aeneis
and Daedalus’ work, the double labyrinth. By that he managed to highlight the hybrid nature of Aeneis itself
and also, through some textual omissions, to depict Roman superhero-to-be, Aeneas, as a traitor. Vergil also
made this ecphrasis both poet’s statement about boundaries of making poetry and a masterpiece of Augustan
propaganda.
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Romani antiqui putabant litteras aedificiis similes esse. Nonnulli scriptores Latini tali modo
metaphoras suas composuerunt, ut descriptio aedificii una cum descriptione operis poetici esset.
Aeneis etiam effigiem suam continet, quae est ecphrasis portae templi Apollinis.
In fabulam Aeneae Vergilius fabulam Daedali introduxit, quae diu doctis ad nihil pertinere
videbatur. Falsissime quidem, quia non solum coniunctio fabularum exsistit, sed etiam multae sunt
causae fabulae Daedali hoc loco imponendae. Imprimis caelamen monstrat multos casus ex vita
Daedali et Aeneae similes fuisse, deinde ostendere Daedalum creatorem hibridarum esse videtur.
Aeneis etiam hibrida est, quia constat ex duabus partibus, quae sunt, ut ita dicam, „pars Odysseica”
et „pars Iliadica”. Utri (Daedalus Vergiliusque scilicet) sunt ergo creatores hibridarum. Maximi
momenti est quaestio: quis dicit “miserum!” in hac parte poematis? Auctrix commentationis censet
illum clamantem Vergilium esse, quia poeta constructorem „alter ego” suum esse credebat.
Auctrix scripsit etiam imaginem illam, in qua caelata est fabula de Minotauro sine Theseo, viam
esse pietatis Aeneae minuendae. Scripsit verba illa quoque opinionem Vergilii de natura poesis et
vocem Augusti absconditam esse.
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Aeneis, architecture, Augustus, Daedalus, Labyrinth, Metatext, Vergilius
Citation
Symbolae Philologorum Posnaniensium, 2011, nr XXI/2, s. 145-155
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978-83-7654-181-5
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0302-7384