July 26, 2016
Giampiero Scafoglio, « Ingénuité et subtilité de Servius », Interférences, ID : 10.4000/interferences.5741
This paper aims to demonstrate, by means of some examples drawn from the commentary on books VII and VIII of the Aeneid, that Servius is not always a naïve scholar (an euphemism to say stupid). On the contrary, sometimes he proves to be a keen and sophisticated scholar as for the interpretation of the structure and narrative strategy in Virgil’s tale, as well as he reveals a special sensitivity to nature and its spectacles: the aesthetic and visual sensitivity which is typical of Late Antiquity.