TY  - JOUR
PY  - 2010//
TI  - Unlocking Aeneid 6.460: Plautus' Amphitryon, Euripides' Protesilaus and the referents of Callimachus' Coma
JO  - Classical Journal
A1  - Pelliccia, H.
SP  - 149
EP  - 219
VL  - 106
IS  - 2
N2  - Why does Virgil have Aeneas in his underworld encounter with Dido quote Catullus' translation of Callimachus' lighthearted Coma Berenices? Virgil alludes to a long and largely lost tradition of unwilling departure scenes that provided Callimachus with his own models and referents, chief among them, Euripides' Protesilaus, in which the title-character returned only for a day from the underworld to visit his wfe Laodamia and thus led her, grief-stricken to suicide.<p /> <p>Language: en</p>
LA  - en
SN  - 0009-8353
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/
ID  - ref1
ER  -