NON INFLATI SOMNIA PROPERTII: MORFOLOGIA DI UN PAESAGGIO ‘CALLIMACHEO’ (PROP. III 3)

Abstract

The warp of Prop. III 3 reveals a dense interweaving of learned suggestions of het erogeneous origins. The intertextual dialogue with the two proems of Callimachean Aetia (as well as with the Hymn to Apollo) from which the landscape pieces (Mount Helikon, sources, rivers), that form the background to the epiphanies of Apollo and Calliope, are mostly derived, reveals how, behind the lesson of the Battiades, the Propertian metaliterary language has become figurative tout court.