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- Title
Do mercado de livros ao acampamento militar: um estudo da difusão da Eneida no Império a partir dos exercitationes scribendi.
- Authors
Araújo Mota, Thiago Eustáquio
- Abstract
According to the late ancient biographical tradition, Virgil expressed, before his death, the desire to incinerate the books of the Aeneid, since the work of composition was incomplete. Until the invention of the codex, the medium of dissemination of the Aeneid was, most likely, the volumen consisting of papyrus leaves. Considering the limitations of this medium, it is likely that the poem's books circulated separately. Judging by the papyrological corpus (31 papyri identified until the present stage of the research), epigraphy and sporadic mentions by Latin authors, the epic reached a rapid spread within the limits of the Empire as early as the first two centuries of its publication (1st century BC). As part of the typology of the source and historical approach of the epic we are concerned in this article about a specific moment previous to the codices antiquores (4th-5th Century). Our approach concerns the problem of volumen support, as well as the diffusion of the Virgilian poems, in view of their poetic fruition and their school use from a group of papyri categorized as Exercitationes scribendi.
- Publication
Romanitas: Revista de Estudos Greco-Latinas, 2017, Issue 10, p200
- ISSN
2318-9304
- Publication type
Article