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Scenes of departure by sea in the epic tradition from Homer to Silius

François Ripoll

Résumé

Scenes of departure by sea are present in all the extant Graeco-Romanepics from theOdysseyto thePunica, even when the main narrative does notinvolve seafaring, such as Statius’Thebaid. The aim of this paper is to examinethe growth of thistopos, from the brief scenes of Homer to the lengthy passagesof Latin epic, the incorporation of elegiac elements from Ovid onwards (and thesubsequent problem of the ‘elegisation’ of epic and/or ‘epicisation’ of elegy), therewritings and reinterpretations of some motifs (sailing manœuvres, point of viewof the narrator, individual or collective weeping, disappearance of the ship or theland, presence or absence of religious elements, status of the leader etc.) and tospecify the narrative, structural and symbolical functions of such scenes.

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hal-04211627 , version 1 (19-09-2023)

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François Ripoll. Scenes of departure by sea in the epic tradition from Homer to Silius. Chr. Reitz et S. Finkmann. Structures of Epic Poetry, II. 3, De Gruyter, pp.89-124, 2019, ⟨10.1515/9783110492590-042⟩. ⟨hal-04211627⟩

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