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- Title
SPATIAL METAPHORS FOR FATE IN THE AENEID.
- Authors
Zanker, Andreas T.; Zanker, Graham
- Abstract
This article considers how fate (fatum) is described in the Aeneid, with a particular emphasis on how spatial metaphors play a role in its conceptualization. All instances of the term fatum within the poem are considered. As a fictional phenomenon closely connected to time (whose link with space within language has long been noted), fate and its workings are frequently delineated via metaphors of movement and directionality. We first (1) consider basic and apparently nonmetaphorical expressions for fate; (2) illustrate how fate can be described as a cause by, for example, being placed in the ablative; and (3) survey various expressions of constraint; before (4) focusing on the ways that fate is spatially construed. This leads to (5) consideration of how the fates could be understood as agents. We then (6) discuss how these metaphors cohere with Homeric notions of fate and causality; and finally (7) survey the ways in which Vergil can construe fate without the term fatum.
- Subjects
AENEID; VIRGIL, 70 B.C.-19 B.C.; METAPHOR; POETRY (Literary form)
- Publication
Vergilius, 2023, Vol 69, p3
- ISSN
0506-7294
- Publication type
Article