A talk by Professor Andrea Rotstein, Tel Aviv University
The tendency to say similar things twice is a feature of Vergil’s style that has troubled scholars for generations (Latinists call it “Theme and Variation”). Taking a comparative approach with the synonymous forms of Parallelismus Membrorum typical of ancient Hebrew poetry, this talk will explore the rhetorical and semantic functions of redundancy in the Aeneid, suggesting its possible gains from communicative and cognitive points of view.
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