The article originates in the analysis of the 'praefatio' to Servius' Commentary on Vergil's Aeneid 3, in which an unexpected depiction of Aeneas as being 'territus adventu Diomedis' appears, otherwise missing in Vergil's poem. The investigation aims at a definition of Diomedes' role both in the antiquarian republican tradition (which Servius and Servius Auctus or Danielis refer to) and in the Augustan Age. The study focuses especially on the hypothesis of a Varronian source for S and DS, and even for Vergil himself, as deducible from the analysis of the syntagm 'hostilis facies' (Aen. 3,407). As for the Augustus' era a sort of censure against Diomedes, the carrier of the Palladium to Italy, can be inferred from the Augustan poets' silence about Diomedes, the study of Dionysus of Halicarnassus' data and iconographic evidences. An anonymous Vergilian scholium is then examined with reference to traces of a lost poem, the 'Diomedea', composed by Iullus Antonius under Augustus (the anti-Aeneid?).
Diomede e il Palladio: il mito repubblicano, la revisione augustea e l’esegesi tardoantica
LAGIOIA, ALESSANDRO
2006-01-01
Abstract
The article originates in the analysis of the 'praefatio' to Servius' Commentary on Vergil's Aeneid 3, in which an unexpected depiction of Aeneas as being 'territus adventu Diomedis' appears, otherwise missing in Vergil's poem. The investigation aims at a definition of Diomedes' role both in the antiquarian republican tradition (which Servius and Servius Auctus or Danielis refer to) and in the Augustan Age. The study focuses especially on the hypothesis of a Varronian source for S and DS, and even for Vergil himself, as deducible from the analysis of the syntagm 'hostilis facies' (Aen. 3,407). As for the Augustus' era a sort of censure against Diomedes, the carrier of the Palladium to Italy, can be inferred from the Augustan poets' silence about Diomedes, the study of Dionysus of Halicarnassus' data and iconographic evidences. An anonymous Vergilian scholium is then examined with reference to traces of a lost poem, the 'Diomedea', composed by Iullus Antonius under Augustus (the anti-Aeneid?).I documenti in IRIS sono protetti da copyright e tutti i diritti sono riservati, salvo diversa indicazione.
