Le songe dans l'épopée latine d'Ennius à Claudien. - BOUQUET, J.,
KORTE INHOUD
'Bouquet's professed aim in this volume is to explore the presence and development of the dream-motif throughout Latin epic poetry. The book is divided into eight chapters, one each for Ennius, Virgil, Ovid, Lucan, Valerius Flaccus, Statius, Silius Italius, and Claudian; in addition there is an introduction which briefly sketches the history of the 'topos' in Homer and the ways in which it was interpreted by ancient thinkers, and a conclusion in which B. draws some general observations from the particular passages he has examined in various chapters. For the purposes of his analysis, B. isolates the various dream-passages in each of his authors and places them in four categories: the dream of 'external' origin in which a god or other divine apparition appears to the dreamer; the dream of 'external' origin in which the apparition is a shade of the dead; the 'realistic' dream which affords an insight into the psychological state of the character; and the 'allegorical' dream, based (as B. argues) on the philosop...
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Bruxelles, 2001. 204p. Sewn. Series: Collection Latomus, Volume 260. Nice copy. [Antiquarian] [Auteur: BOUQUET, J.,] [Uitgever: Éditions Latomus] [Jaar: 2001] [Titel: Le songe dans l'épopée latine d'Ennius à Claudien.]
