The phaselus in Catull. 4 is not a real boat, but a boxwood model ship, offered as ex-voto to the Dioscuri. Catullus plays with his readers a typical Ergänzungsspiel, revealing the nature of the phaselus just in the central lines of his poem (ll. 10-15), and making clear only in the final section (ll. 25-27) that the poem belongs to the anathematic sub-genre. The narrating voice of the phaselus (ll. 2, 15 ait, l. 6 negat) and the one of the real boat overlap through the poem: that is a typical feature in the Hellenistic votive epigrams, esp. in Callimachus. The paper focuses on the different voices and identities in the Hellenistic anathematic epigram: Posidipp. 75 Austin-Bastianini, Callim. epigr. xiv, xvi, xxii, xxiv-xxviii G.-P., and other epigrams are analysed. The Argonautic account in Callimachus’ Aetia (7c-21d Pf./Harder = 9,19-23 Massimilla) is also taken into consideration. In the final pages, Latin imitations and allusions to Catull. 4 are looked into: [Verg.] Catal. 10; Hor. Carm. 1,14; Prop. 3,21,17-20; Ov. Trist. 1,10; Mart. 7,19.

Il phaselus di Catull. 4 è un modellino in bosso: è necessario confrontare la lunga tradizione ellenistica, in particolare callimachea, degli epigrammi votivi per decifrare il gioco letterario dell'autore (nel racconto del phaselus, riferito dall'ego narrante, si sovrappongono, come spesso avviene in ambito ellenistico, la voce dell'oggetto offerto ex voto e quella della persona, dell'animale o dell'oggetto di cui esso è rappresentazione).

Il callimachismo del carme 4 di Catullo

Morelli Alfredo Mario
2015

Abstract

The phaselus in Catull. 4 is not a real boat, but a boxwood model ship, offered as ex-voto to the Dioscuri. Catullus plays with his readers a typical Ergänzungsspiel, revealing the nature of the phaselus just in the central lines of his poem (ll. 10-15), and making clear only in the final section (ll. 25-27) that the poem belongs to the anathematic sub-genre. The narrating voice of the phaselus (ll. 2, 15 ait, l. 6 negat) and the one of the real boat overlap through the poem: that is a typical feature in the Hellenistic votive epigrams, esp. in Callimachus. The paper focuses on the different voices and identities in the Hellenistic anathematic epigram: Posidipp. 75 Austin-Bastianini, Callim. epigr. xiv, xvi, xxii, xxiv-xxviii G.-P., and other epigrams are analysed. The Argonautic account in Callimachus’ Aetia (7c-21d Pf./Harder = 9,19-23 Massimilla) is also taken into consideration. In the final pages, Latin imitations and allusions to Catull. 4 are looked into: [Verg.] Catal. 10; Hor. Carm. 1,14; Prop. 3,21,17-20; Ov. Trist. 1,10; Mart. 7,19.
2015
Morelli, Alfredo Mario
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