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TWO PROPHECIES OF CASSANDRA
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S0321-03910000392-7-1
Publication type
Article
Status
Published
Authors
Valentina Zavyalova 
Edition
Issue 3
Pages
20-30
Abstract
Analysing two of Cassandra’s prophecies in Lycophron’s poem Alexandra (dealing with the foundation of Cyrene and Odysseus’ death and burial) the author shows that the poem can only be understood in the light of aesthetic principles of Hellenistic poetry. Like other Alexandrian poets, Lycophron composes his work on a broad basis of mythological tradition, using variants and variations of myths and plots and their interpretations by previous authors. He is interested not so much in a plot or a motif itself, but in poetical nuances and mythological details. Cassandra’s prophecies can be short (as in the case of the foundation of Cyrene) or extensive (as in the case of Odysseus), but the mythological background is always deep and vast, and to decipher the message one must take into account the whole of the mythological tradition.
Keywords
Lycophron, Alexandra, Callimachus, Apollonios of Rhodes, Alexandrian poetry, poetical allegory, variants of myth
Date of publication
01.07.2014
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