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Le Moyen Age
De Boeck Université

I.S.B.N.9782804157616
228 pages

p. 273 à 286
doi: 10.3917/rma.142.0273

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Au sillon de Virgile : un embellissement médiéval de Cerbère

Raymond J. Cormier

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This comparative study aims to stress the particular, yet typical, strategy of appropriating a classical epic into the vernacular by Norman French adaptors in the 1160s. While clarifying Virgil’s dominant inspiration, a few verses of the Aeneid (VI, v. 417-425) on Cerberus, the Guard Dog of Hell, are expanded into 48 octosyllabic verses (with borrowings from Ovid and Virgil’s Georgics), thus giving the Romance of Aeneas an extraordinary “hypotyposis”. I also hope to show that iridescent description provides a metonymic key to our understanding of the way medieval romance was created in this innovative workshop in which the classics were revitalized and rediscovered in France during the 12th Century Renaissance.Keywords : comparison, Aenead, Romance of Aeneas, Cerberus, description, Ovid.

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