RIVER, GIANT AND HUBRIS: A NOTE ON VIRGIL, AENEID 8.330-2

Result code in IS VaVaI

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Result on the web

<a href="https://verso.is.cuni.cz/pub/verso.fpl?fname=obd_publikace_handle&handle=EfIF4sfHzI" target="_blank" >https://verso.is.cuni.cz/pub/verso.fpl?fname=obd_publikace_handle&handle=EfIF4sfHzI</a>

DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/S0009838824000065" target="_blank" >10.1017/S0009838824000065</a>

Result language

angličtina

Original language name

RIVER, GIANT AND HUBRIS: A NOTE ON VIRGIL, AENEID 8.330-2

Original language description

Virgil has Evander trace the origins of the name of the river Tiber back to the death of a giant, called &apos;Thybris&apos; (Aen. 8.330-2). This article argues that the reference to the violent (asper) giant can be understood as etymological wordplay on the Greek word hubris and as a potential allusion to the grammatical debate on the nature of aspiration. Varro&apos;s De gente populi Romani is identified as an important source for the characterization of the Tiber as a giant in primeval times. The political implications of the word hubris are also briefly explored with reference to various identities to which Evander alludes. The final part of the article argues that Theocritus&apos; Idyll 1 and the scholiast to Theocritus may have also inspired Virgil&apos;s description of the Tiber in this passage.

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

J_imp - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database

CEP classification

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OECD FORD branch

60101 - History (history of science and technology to be 6.3, history of specific sciences to be under the respective headings)

Project

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Continuities

I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace

Publication year

2024

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Name of the periodical

Classical Quarterly

ISSN

0009-8388

e-ISSN

1471-6844

Volume of the periodical

74

Issue of the periodical within the volume

1

Country of publishing house

GB - UNITED KINGDOM

Number of pages

9

Pages from-to

150-158

UT code for WoS article

001326863000001

EID of the result in the Scopus database

2-s2.0-85205079933