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- Title
The Tenth of Age of Apollo and a New Acrostic in Eclogue 4.
- Authors
Kronenberg, Leah
- Abstract
The article offers information on the works and contributions of Roman poet Virgil and presents comments from writer Joshua Katz regarding the same. It states the efforts of Virgil to utilize wordplay in order to support this allusion to the doctrine of ten ages. It mentions his works as a syllabic and Greek acrostics whose nature of the wordplay connects it to the original language of Sibylline oracle.
- Subjects
VIRGIL, 70 B.C.-19 B.C.; ACROSTICS (Literary form); PLAYS on words; ORACULA Sibyllina; KATZ, Joshua T., 1969-
- Publication
Philologus -- Zeitschrift für Antike Literatur und Ihre Rezeption, 2017, Vol 161, Issue 2, p337
- ISSN
0031-7985
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1515/phil-2016-0120