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

Détails

Ressource 1Télécharger: Rolle_artPhilologus.pdf (92.20 [Ko])
Etat: Public
Version: Final published version
Licence: Tous droits réservés
ID Serval
serval:BIB_01CA54BA3A78
Type
Article: article d'un périodique ou d'un magazine.
Collection
Publications
Institution
Titre
Due frammenti menippei di parodia filosofico-religiosa: i frr. 582a-b e 583 B.
Périodique
Philologus
Auteur⸱e⸱s
Rolle A.
ISSN
0031-7985 (print)
Statut éditorial
Publié
Date de publication
2013
Peer-reviewed
Oui
Volume
157
Numéro
2
Pages
283-290
Langue
italien
Résumé
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.
Mots-clé
Varro's Menippean Satires, Stoic Theology, Philosophical Parody, Cicero's De Natura Deorum, Intertextuality
Création de la notice
10/03/2016 12:04
Dernière modification de la notice
13/10/2021 7:08
Données d'usage