Supervisors info:
Παπαϊωαννου Σοφία (Επόπτρια), Καθηγήτρια Λατινικής Φιλολογίας.
Κάρλα Γραμματική, Καθηγήτρια Αρχαίας Ελληνικής Φιλολογίας.
Μακρυγιάννη Ευγενία, Αναπληρώτρια Καθηγήτρια Αρχαίας Ελληνικής Φιλολογίας.
Summary:
The subject of this paper is the metrical commentary of specific scenes from Homer's Iliad and Odyssey and Virgil's Aeneid. The comparative study of these selected texts aims to demonstrate that the handling of the dactylic hexameter by the two epic poets was a particular feature of each, with Homer generally serving the basic scheme and Virgil differing greatly in the form of the hexameter from his predecessor.
My aim is not to present a textbook of metrics, but to present a stylistic and hermeneutical analysis of passages from the Iliad, the Odyssey and the Aeneid with their metrical analysis as the common denominator. Therefore, this paper consists of three chapters, the first of which records the comparative study of scenes from the works of Homer and Virgil, in particular predominantly epic scenes, in order to clarify the basic form of the dactylic hexameter. In particular, the duel between Achilles and Hector and, respectively, between Aeneas and Tyrrhus (1.1), the shields of Achilles and Aeneas (1.2) and a battle scene from the Iliad and the Aeneid (1.3) are studied. To make the differentiation and development of Virgil from his predecessor more clear, the episodes of Apollo with Python and Daphne in Ovid's Metamorphoses are also studied in 1.1, as well as 1.1. elegy of Propertius.
The second chapter deals with the recording of emotion in the structure of the dactylic hexameter. The study focuses specifically on the expression of three emotions - love (2.1), anger (2.2) and grief (2.3). For this purpose, the scenes of Hector with Andromache, Achilles' rage and the lament of Priam and Hecuba for Hector are studied from the Iliad, while the troubled relationship between Aeneas and Dido, the rage of Aeneas and Hera are studied from the Aeneid in order to show the difference in human and divine rage, and finally the lament of Euryalus' mother.
The third and final chapter deals with female characters. More specifically, Helen in the third book of the Iliad is metrically contrasted with Queen Dido in the first book of the Aeneid, Penelope in the first and the nineteenth book of the Odyssey as a model woman for the time in contrast to Camilla in the eleventh book of the Latin text, who participates in battles, and finally the "guardian angels" of Odysseus in the sixth book of the Odyssey and of Aeneas in the first book of the Aeneid, namely Nausicaa and Aphrodite respectively.
Keywords:
Dactylic hexameter, Iliad, Odyssey, Aeneid, Homer, Virgil
