Cuadernos de Filología Clásica. Estudios Latinos

The Prologue in Latin comedy: from Plautus to Romañá

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The following pages deal with the evolution of the Prologue in Latin comic works from Antiquity to the Renaissance. We examine the main features of the old palliata, the innovations introduced by Terence, its continued presence in Medieval comedy and the variety of Prologues to be found in the different varieties of Humanistic comedy. Despite the changes which it has undergone, we can claim that the Prologue has kept to a similar structure from its origin up to the Renaissance. It has continued to function unchanged as a preliminary paratext whose aim is to inform the receiver about the circumstances surrounding the work.

The Tribadism of Philaenis in Martial: another possible interpretation of the epigram 9.40

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This paper studies how the caricature character of Philaenis is created, presented as an ugly and one-eyed woman (2.33, 4.65, 10.22, 12.22) and as an active, androgynous and notably masculine tribad (7.67, 7.70, 9.29, 9.62). The culmination of the character comes in the epigram 9.40, where Philaenis promises her husband a spectacle of voyeurism, letting an innocent girl lick her vulva and vagina. Thus he goes from cunnilinctrix to irrumatrix and adopts, even without knowing it, the active and virile sexual role that she so longed for in 7.67. This character represents the archetype of a woman who crosses the limits, unable to control her passions and who confuses the scale of sexual values. Philaenis, who, with her masculinity, refuses to be penetrated, even orally, and tries to be only active, does not realize that by performing oral sex on women, she is still a fellatrix and becomes passive, thus becoming orally penetrated.

Animula Christianized: the dead or missing animal as a symbol in Alcuin of York and his Roman antecedents

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This paper explores the motif of dead or missing birds in Alcuin of York’s Latin poetry. The Alcuinian works related to this topic will be described and situated against the backdrop of classical sources dedicated to deceased animals. Given the philosophical implications of this literary motif, the concept of the Seelenvogel and the choice of anima or animus to represent the soul will likewise be analyzed. Following a discussion of Alcuin’s possible influences, with special emphasis on Ovid’s Amores 2.6 and Catullus’s Carmina 2 and 3, the paper will discuss the adaptation of a classical symbol to the Christian context of the High Middle Ages. This study’s main contributions consist in 1) a discussion of the interrelationships and coherency that connect the large and chronically disparate set of Latin works dedicated to dead animals and 2) an analysis of the surprising textual similarities linking Alcuin’s Carmina 57 and 61 to Catullus’s Carmina 2 and 3, commonalities that suggest new perspectives on the transmission of Catullus’s work to later eras.

Plus pluris mittere debet: philological notes on Nebrija's Introductiones Latinae edited by his pupil Cristóbal Escobar

2024-12-12T12:51:31+00:00

It is known from previous studies that the humanist Cristóbal Escobar, Andalusian by birth and Sicilian by adoption, used more than one edition to prepare his own edition of the Antonio de Nebrija's Introductiones Latinae, his master, intended for the Italian public and published in Venice in 1512. This work identifies, on the basis of the collation and analysis of variants, which editions were used by the Nebrija's disciple. The results of the study have also made it possible to determine which edition was used for which content.

The playwriter Terence and his plays in Celestina comentada

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Celestina comentada represents the inaugural comprehensive commentary elucidating how La Celestina was read during the sixteenth century. The playwright Terence plays an important role in this work, as the author of the Commentary posits that specific passages of La Celestina contain allusions to verses from Terence's comedies. The purpose of this study is to identify and analyse the passages that allude to Terence and his comedies. This will enable us to ascertain the extent of Terence's influence, the reasons for it, and the value placed upon him by the author of Celestina comentada, also in the literary context of La Celestina itself.

A. López Fonseca & J. M. Ruiz Vila, La filosofía en la Antigua Roma (Marco Tulio Cicerón, El sueño de Escipión, Lucio Aneo Séneca, La vida feliz, San Agustín de Hipona, El maestro), Valencia, Tirant Editorial, 2024, 228 pp.

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T. Grüll (ed.), Representations of Writing Materials on Roman Funerary Monuments. Text, Image, Message, Oxford, Archaeopress, 2023, 194 pp. [Archaeopress Roman Archaeology 104]

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G. Folena, Vulgarizar y traducir. Idea y terminología de la traducción desde la Edad Media hasta el Humanismo, trad. española de Guillermo Piro, Sevilla, Mármol-Izquierdo Editores, 2024, 168 pp

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P. Piqueras Yagüe, Editio princeps del Ovidius moralizatus de Pierre Bersuire, Huelva, Servicio de Publicaciones de la Universidad de Huelva, 2021, 459 pp.

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G. Alvar Nuño, En clase de gramática con el maestro Alfonso Fernández de Madrigal. In Evsebivm cronicon sive temporvm breviarivm novvs commentarivs (BNE mss/1799, ff.1r-51r.), Madrid, Ediciones Clásicas, 2021, 436 pp.

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L. Unceta Gómez & C. Salcedo González (eds.), Clasicismo e identidades contemporáneas. Recepciones clásicas en la cultura de masas, Madrid, Catarata/Las Palmas de Gran Canaria-Universidad de las Palmas de Gran Canaria, 2024, 304 pp.

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