Serpentine Bonds: The Anonymous Querolus and the Virgilian Underworld
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https://doi.org/10.17074/cpc.v1i43.55460Parole chiave:
Plautus, Virgil, Aeneid, QuerolusAbstract
In the sixth book of the Aeneid, Virgil’s description of Aeneas’ approach to the threshold of the underworld contains both vivid imagery and an interesting textual controversy: the story that four verses on the Gorgon Medusa were deleted by Virgil’s emendatores, presumably the enigmatic Varius and Tucca. These verses have languished for centuries in the grammatical tradition, posing a mystery not unlike the puzzle of the more famous Helen episode from Book II. The sixth book of the Aeneid was an influence on a curious work that has survived from classical literature and will be analyzed within this essay: the anonymous prose comedy Querolus sive Aulularia, the only extant Latin comedy apart from the dramas of Plautus and Terence.
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