The Great Atrides and the Tall Achilles (‘Rvf’, 360 91)
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Abstract
While the epic expressions ‘grande Atride’ and ‘alto Achille’ may seem like ancient formulae of Homeric diction, they are far from traditional, since they made their first appearance in ‘Rvf ’ 360. After Petrarch, they will become popular (above all, but not only) among translators of the ‘Iliad’, both in Latin poetry (from Poliziano onwards) and Italian (Foscolo, Monti) and in the main languages and literatures of Western culture.
Keywords
- Heroic epithets in Latin and Italian poetry
- Petrarch and the epic tradition
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- Petrarchan’
- formularity
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- Rvf’
- 360 91 and its intertexts
