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- Title
Virgil's Homer as Tautological Reception in Gabriel Pereira de Castro's Ulisseia, ou Lisboa Edificada (1636).
- Authors
Vazquez, Adriana
- Abstract
The seventeenth-century epic poem, the Ulisseia ou Lisboa Edificada, of Gabriel Pereira de Castro, presents a complex intervention in the project of nationalist mythmaking for the Portuguese empire using the lexicon of antique reception, and especially the literary tradition as exemplified by Camões's The Lusiads, published in 1572. The poem narrates the foundation of Lisbon by Odysseus and is framed as a parergon of his famed Homeric nostos. Despite the poet's insistent claim in the opening canto to 'sing in imitation of Homer' ('espero cantar de Ulisses, imitando a Homero'), Virgil's Aeneid emerges as an essential poetic model for the text, as much at the level of bilingual intertext as in its function as a poetic reception itself of the Homeric corpus. This article elucidates Pereira de Castro's appropriation of Virgil's Aeneidqua Homeric reception and integrates the text into a totalizing tradition of epic that positions the Ulisseia in relation to the dominant national epic tradition of Camões's The Lusiads. The triangulation between three texts, the Ulisseia, the Aeneid and the Odyssey, exemplifies a receptive method I term a receptive tautology, by which one receptive turn gestures to an additional tradition, which ultimately reaffirms the status of the primary receiving text.
- Subjects
EPIC poetry; PORTUGUESE poets; LEXICON; POETICS; PLEONASM
- Publication
International Journal of the Classical Tradition, 2023, Vol 30, Issue 2, p156
- ISSN
1073-0508
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1007/s12138-021-00611-5