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Document Details : Title: Semper Retis memorabile bellum (Raet. 7.565) Subtitle: Simon Lemnius in der Nachfolge des Silius Italicus Author(s): SCHAFFENRATH, Florian Journal: Humanistica Lovaniensia Volume: 70 Issue: 2 Date: 2021 Pages: 185-208 DOI: 10.2143/HLO.70.2.3292310 Abstract : In his epic poem Raeteis, the poet Simon Lemnius (1522-1550) sings of the battles that took place in 1499 between the Raetians (Grisons) and the troops of Maximilian I and the Swabian League. The following article shows that Lemnius did not base his poetry primarily on Virgil’s Aeneid, as often claimed in the past, but that Silius Italicus and his Punica are his main epic model. This is demonstrated by the following points: intertextual relations especially in the proem, the missing single hero, the populus as hero, historiographical source, comparisons of battles in the Raeteis with battles in the Punica. |
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