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- Title
Four Technopaegnia in Musaeus' Hero and Leander.
- Authors
Stępień, Piotr
- Abstract
This article discusses four newly discovered technopaegnia in Musaeus's Hero and Leander. The author argues that they are interconnected and constitute a complex literary game that spreads almost over the whole poem. The characteristic elements of the technopaegnia discussed in the article are the apostrophes, their palindromic character, and the numbers 9 and 10. Based on the latter feature, the author tries to show that lines 1-10 hide references to the Pythagoreans' teachings about the first ten numbers.
- Subjects
TECHNOPAIGNIA; SYMBOLISM of numbers; MUSAEUS, Grammaticus; PALINDROMES; HERO (Greek mythology)
- Publication
Mnemosyne, 2022, Vol 75, Issue 2, p314
- ISSN
0026-7074
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1163/1568525X-BJA10055