Metalanguage in Longus’ Daphnis and Chloe, Based on Some Common Approaches to Vergil’s Eclogues
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https://doi.org/10.17851/1983-3636.13.1.107-122Keywords:
Greek romance, Longus, Daphnis and Chloe, Vergil, EcloguesAbstract
This paper aims to point out at some common approaches between Longus’ Daphnis and Chloe and Vergil’s Eclogues. The main focus of this article is to present an analysis of an excerpt of Longus’ text, in which a metalinguistic reading can be performed, based on the use of certain traditional elements also used in Vergil’s poems. Some commentators apply the tria genera dicendi to characters, and this instrument makes it possible for us to realize that both Longus and Virgil indicate a hierarchy between goatherds, shepherds and cowherds. This hierarchy is also applied to poetry. By performing an analysis of the vocabulary used by Longus in the selected excerpt of his work, it is possible for us to verify that he comments his own composition as he evokes this pastoral hierarchy in a context of a commentary on poetic composition. It is also possible for us to realize that Longus elaborates a subtle reflection on how his work, a bucolic Greek love novel, relates itself to traditional genre definitions as a multiple, hybrid genre.
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