title: Pagan Gods and Allegory in the Ylias by Joseph of Exeter
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metadata.value: Shmarakov, Roman R.
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metadata.name: dc.date.accessioned
metadata.value: 2020-02-07T14:14:56Z
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metadata.value: 2020-02-07T14:14:56Z
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metadata.name: dc.date.issued
metadata.value: 2019-12
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metadata.name: dc.identifier.citation
metadata.value: Roman R. Shmarakov. Pagan Gods and Allegory in the Ylias by Joseph of Exeter. Philologia Classica 2019, 14 (2), 239–248.
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metadata.value: https://doi.org/10.21638/11701/spbu20.2019.205
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metadata.value: http://hdl.handle.net/11701/17055
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metadata.value: This article traces the reception of pagan concepts (mythological figures, formulae of heroic
  poems) in Latin poetry of the 12th c. In his Ylias (2. 1–14), Joseph of Exeter creates a passage
  that can be both read in heathen (when uttered by a character) and Christian (as coming
  from the author) paradigm. Furia Allecto tormenting Priam is allegorised to stand for “sinister
  thought” (mala cogitatio). This interpretation is widely used; it is found, for example, in the
  Architrenius by John of Hauville. Pallas protecting the Troyan citadel from the furies is both a
  figure of myth and stands for wisdom confronting the passions. The expression “the dead of
  your exile” (funera exilii tui) can be read through a Christian lens (meaning people who died
  before Christ), as well as through a Platonic one: earth is a place of exile for souls while their
  homeland is in the skies. This passage, which allows for a double interpretation, prepares the
  reader for the dream of Paris at the end of book two (the dream motive itself existed already
  in the antiquity stemming from the rationalistic rethinking of the Judgment of Paris). Joseph
  of Exeter described the Judgment of Paris in such a way that it can be interpreted both from
  the pagan and Christian standpoint. It breeds tragic irony: Paris triumphs, having acquired
  the benevolence of the goddess, but a Christian reader anticipates the death of the hero who
  deified his own voluptuousness.
metadata.lang: en_GB
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metadata.value: en
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metadata.name: dc.publisher
metadata.value: St Petersburg State University
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metadata.value: Philologia Classica;Volume 14; Issue 2
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metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: Medieval Latin epics
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metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: allegory
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metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: interpretatio Christiana
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.title
metadata.value: Pagan Gods and Allegory in the Ylias by Joseph of Exeter
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metadata.value: Article
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