Open AccessA Repeated Allusion to Pindar and the Eleusinian Mysteries in Anaxilas’ Comic Fragments?
Author(s) -
Jerzy Danielewicz
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
symbolae philologorum posnaniensium graecae et latinae
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2720-2305
pISSN - 0302-7384
DOI - 10.14746/sppgl.2021.xxxi.1.7
Subject(s) - comics , allusion , fragment (logic) , literature , phrase , art , philosophy , linguistics , computer science , programming language
Anaxilas in fragments 25 and 30 K.-A. deliberately alluded to Pindar’s fragment 137 S.-M. and the mystery references it contains, but at the same time completely redesigned the sense of the Pindaric phrase for a strong comic effect.