SILENUS’ SONG (VIRGIL ECL. 6.27-86) —A SOURCE FOR OVID’S PYTHAGOREANISM IN THE METAMORPHOSES ?

Pythagorean ideas in Silenus’ song in Virgil’s Eclogue 6 are set out. The role of music in ordering a transcendent, stable world and changing cosmos and in accessing the transcendent world is shown to be stressed by Virgil. A modern-philosophical account of musical transcendence is provided, as well...

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Main Author: Marcus Nabielek
Format: Article
Language:Spanish
Published: Universidad Panamericana 2013-11-01
Series:Tópicos
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Online Access:http://topicosojs.up.edu.mx/ojs/index.php/topicos/article/view/161