Muses in the Sky: Lucretius’ Invocative Telestich and its Multiple Revivals in Latin Poetry

IF 0.1 3区历史学 0 CLASSICS

CLASSICAL JOURNAL Pub Date : 2023-10-01 DOI:10.1353/tcj.2023.a909262

Ábel Tamás

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Abstract

Abstract: In the first seven lines of his opening proem, where we notoriously find a Hymn to Venus, Lucretius compensates the Muses with an invocative Muse-telestich spelling MuSAS/MuSIS, which is signposted by caeli … labentia signa and thus connected to the Aratean tradition of both heavenly and written “signs”. Moreover, Lucretius’ telestich establishes a firm tradition including (so far) Catullus, Vergil, Horace, Ovid, and Lucan, who mark some of their most emphatic—predominantly, but not exclusively, proemial—passages with variants of the Lucretian Muse-telestich and adjust them to their respective poetic programs. The Muse-telestich thus became a textual device by which Latin poets watermarked their highest poetic aspirations in exceedingly creative ways.

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天空中的缪斯:卢克莱修的召唤性神思及其在拉丁诗歌中的多次复兴

摘要:在卢克莱修的开场曲的前七行中，我们发现了一首著名的《维纳斯的赞美诗》，卢克莱修用一个祈求的缪斯-telestich拼写MuSAS/MuSIS来补偿缪斯，这个拼写是由caeli…labentia signa标记的，因此与阿拉泰人的天堂和书面“符号”传统联系在一起。此外，卢克莱修的“缪斯”建立了一个坚定的传统，包括(到目前为止)卡图卢斯、维吉尔、贺拉斯、奥维德和卢坎，他们用卢克莱修的“缪斯”的变体标记了一些最强调的——主要的，但不是唯一的——原始的段落，并将它们调整为各自的诗歌程序。缪斯-泰斯克因此成为一种文字工具，拉丁诗人用极具创造性的方式标记他们最高的诗歌愿望。

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CLASSICAL JOURNAL Arts and Humanities-Classics

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