Metáfora y magia en La Hechicera de Teócrito
Title (trans.)
Metaphor and Magic in The Sorceress by TheocritusAuthor
Hualde Pascual, M. PilarEntity
UAM. Departamento de Filología ClásicaPublisher
Departamento de Línguas e Culturas da Universidade de AveiroDate
2017Citation
Ágora: estudos clássicos em debate 19 (2017): 117-146ISSN
0874-5498Subjects
Teócrito; Idilio segundo; Metáfora cognitiva; Magia; Amor; Intertextualidad; FilologíaAbstract
We analyse the rite of erotic magic, as described in the Second Idyll of Theocritus,
in the light of the cognitive metaphors of love which are dismantled in the context of the
so-called sympathetic magic. The allusion in the course of the ceremony to these images,
grounded in literary tradition, appears to be an instance of intertextual play. In it, the
author cryptically alludes to the preceding Greek poetry with ironical intent or even with
an explicit comic purpose, directing it at the figure of the protagonist
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