Dafnis en la Bucólica V de Virgilio: La alusión compleja y los lí­mites de la identidad

Abstract

Most of 5th Bucolic's criticism has started from the idea that Daphnis is an allegory of another character or of another reality. However, there is nothing in him that makes it possible to support an allegorical interpretation in any sense because, unlike the puer of the 4th Bucolic or the iuvenis of the 1". Daphnis has a precise name. Taking into account other views, the idea of this article is that the 5th Bucolic's Daphnis suggests different planes of allusions (complex allusion); one of those is the contemporary plane, that refers to Caesar. Nevertheless, the literary nature of the text prevents us to admit allegorization, based on points of view unaware of the literary nature of texts. The review of different critical perspectives moves to think that, in a way, those meanings are present in Virgil poem and are not necessarily the result of later speculations. Eventually, we can see that it is poetry, as a support of history [and throughout images and allusions], the entity capable of celebrating sorne aspect of the historical sphere. We can extend this idea to other parts of Virgilian work