Ví­nculos intertextuales entre los personajes de Pompeyo en Farsalia y de Héctor en Iliada: macroestructuras textuales y configuración de los perfiles heroicos

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Malena Trejo

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The characters of Caesar and Pompey in Pharsalia show certain inconsistencies that critical literature has attempted to explain by means of different strategies for building of meaning. A distinctive one among these is the intertextual reading between Pharsalia and The Iliad, concerning mainly the heroic code (Anderson, 1957; Hardie, 1993; Green, 1991).
This reading stems from von Albrecht (1970), who stablishes a parallelism between Caesar and Achilles, and between Pompey and Agamemnon. Our paper departs from von Albrecht as far as the second one is concerned, in order to set a new comparison between Pompey’s fictional representation and Hector’s character. Our objective is to rethink the intertextual reading of Pharsalia, and thereby shed light on Lucan’s interpretation of the Civil Wars.

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Trejo, M. (2017). Ví­nculos intertextuales entre los personajes de Pompeyo en Farsalia y de Héctor en Iliada: macroestructuras textuales y configuración de los perfiles heroicos. Auster, (22), e038. https://doi.org/10.24215/23468890e38
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