Due frammenti menippei di parodia filosofico-religiosa: i frr. 582a-b e 583 B.

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Title
Due frammenti menippei di parodia filosofico-religiosa: i frr. 582a-b e 583 B.
Journal
Philologus
Author(s)
Rolle A.
ISSN
0031-7985 (print)
Publication state
Published
Issued date
2013
Peer-reviewed
Oui
Volume
157
Number
2
Pages
283-290
Language
italian
Abstract
This essay analyzes two Menippean fragments, quotations of Varro by Seneca and Tertullian respectively (frr. 583 and 582 a-b B., original text incertae sedis). The former describes the image of Stoic god satirically as “round, without head, without prepuce.” This can be read as a caustic rebuttal of the main attributes of the god, such as in fr. 583 B., considered the rational origin of the whole. The latter, fr. 582 a-b B. mentions a multitude of Ioves without heads and can be interpreted as an ironic reference to the Stoic view of the deity: the Stoic God is at the same time singular and multiple because it is the sole source of generation of the whole. The allusion to the acephalous character of the deities in both fragments suggests an attribution of the passages to the same, lost satire, where a discussion about the nature of the gods took place. In particular, the comparison with some pieces of Cicero’s De Natura Deorum permits the identification of the speaker with an Epicurean philosopher who opposes the Stoic conception of the divine.
Keywords
Varro's Menippean Satires, Stoic Theology, Philosophical Parody, Cicero's De Natura Deorum, Intertextuality
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