Catullus in Late Imperial Greek Literature: the Case of Philostratus

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16 décembre 2021

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Catullus Philostratus Callistratus Second Sophistic Atticism Hellenistic epigram intertextuality text and image studies ekphrasis bilingualism biculturalism illusionism Ariadne Bacchantes Dionysus Skopas male gaze

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Flora Iff-Noël, « Catullus in Late Imperial Greek Literature: the Case of Philostratus », Dictynna, ID : 10.4000/dictynna.2655


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Recently, suggestions of Latin influences on imperial Greek literature have been met with increasing acceptance. What was the place of Catullus from the second to the fourth century CE? After a short overview of his mentions and quotations, we will devote a case study to the comparison of the ekphrasis of Ariadne in Catullus 64 and that in Philostratus’s Imagines 1.15, as well as the ekphrasis of Bacchantes in Catullus 64, Philostratus’s Imagines 1.18 and Callistratus’s Ekphraseis 2. Would it be possible to read the surprising lack of illusionism in Philostratus’s Ariadne as a correction of Catullus’s extraordinarily illusionistic Ariadne? Could the Atticist Philostratus be staging the Atticist’s feigned rejection of Latin literature by silencing the Catullan Ariadne and by making her Latin love song disappear?

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