The phenomenon of the eclipse of the sun provides Archilochus (fr. 122 W.) with much food for thought. Firstly, he records an immediate reaction based on superstition, and then broadens his perspective to other areas, imagining a possible change in the cosmic and social order, represented by the metaphor of the inversion of zoological spaces. In this new, subverted order, women, who would be freer in choosing their husbands, would also overturn the rules that sanctioned marriage pacts.
Avvertimenti dall'eclissi (Archil., fr. 122 West)
Donato Loscalzo
2025
Abstract
The phenomenon of the eclipse of the sun provides Archilochus (fr. 122 W.) with much food for thought. Firstly, he records an immediate reaction based on superstition, and then broadens his perspective to other areas, imagining a possible change in the cosmic and social order, represented by the metaphor of the inversion of zoological spaces. In this new, subverted order, women, who would be freer in choosing their husbands, would also overturn the rules that sanctioned marriage pacts.File in questo prodotto:
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