A Repeated Allusion to Pindar and the Eleusinian Mysteries in Anaxilas’ Comic Fragments?
Vol. 31 No. 1 (2021), COMMENTATIONES
Vol. 31 No. 1 (2021)

A Repeated Allusion to Pindar and the Eleusinian Mysteries in Anaxilas’ Comic Fragments?

COMMENTATIONES
https://doi.org/10.14746/sppgl.2021.XXXI.1.7
Published 2021-10-12
Jerzy Danielewicz
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6775-3563
Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznań
Poland
Journal cover Symbolae Philologorum Posnaniensium Graecae et Latinae, volume 31, no. 1, year 2021
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Keywords

Anaxilas
Pindar
allusive art
parody
jokes

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Danielewicz, J. (2021). A Repeated Allusion to Pindar and the Eleusinian Mysteries in Anaxilas’ Comic Fragments?. Symbolae Philologorum Posnaniensium Graecae Et Latinae, 31(1), 79–83. https://doi.org/10.14746/sppgl.2021.XXXI.1.7
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Abstract

Anaxilas in fragments 25 and 30 K.-A. deliberately alluded to Pindar’s fragment 137 S.-M. and the mystery references it contains, but at the same time completely redesigned the sense of the Pindaric phrase for a strong comic effect.

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