Close Encounters? Giovanni Pascoli's Crepereia Tryphaena (1893): Accessing Roman Childhood Through the Lens of a Romantic Neo-Latin Poem
Year: 2019
Type: article
Abstract: This article introduces the readers to Crepereia Tryphaena, a poem by Giovanni Pascoli from 1893, written in Sapphic strophes.The archaeological discovery of a second-century sarcophagus of a young woman who was buried along with her wedding gifts forms the starting point for this poem.At the same time, Pascoli approaches the topic as a poeta senza storia: to him, childhood and youth are eternal and fundamental categories of human existence, not bound by limits of space and time.The introduction to and literary analysis of the poem is followed by a reflection on the relation between fiction and 'historical truth'. I. Giovanni Pascoli (1855-1912): A Literary Hero, Only in Italy?For many reasons,
Source: The Classical World
Author: Christian Laes
Language: English
Topic: Classical Antiquity Studies
Subfield: Anthropology
Field: Social Sciences
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: bronze
OpenAlex ID: W2969863400