Author: Berrens, Dominik
Title: « The old man and the bee »: zur Entwicklung eines literarischen Motivs
Review/Collection: Philologus: Zeitschrift für Antike Literatur und Ihre Rezeption, 164.1
Year edition: 2020
Pages: 148-176
Keywords: Stylistique et genres littéraires - Stilistica e generi letterari - Stylistics and literary genre
Description: Although bees are a frequent motif in ancient literature, the people who work with bees are often left in the background. An exception is the motif of the older man on his – usually small – farm who lives from and with his bees. The article shows that this motif is a topos that appears in various texts of Greek and Latin literature of the imperial period. Depending on the intention behind these representations, different elements of the motif may be emphasised or omitted. These variations, and how the motif develops, are here shown through the example of different passages. [Author] Quotes Cato 54
Works:
Link: https://www.degruyterbrill.com/document/doi/10.1515/phil-2020-0104/html
Author initials: Berrens 2020
Title: « The old man and the bee »: zur Entwicklung eines literarischen Motivs
Review/Collection: Philologus: Zeitschrift für Antike Literatur und Ihre Rezeption, 164.1
Year edition: 2020
Pages: 148-176
Keywords: Stylistique et genres littéraires - Stilistica e generi letterari - Stylistics and literary genre
Description: Although bees are a frequent motif in ancient literature, the people who work with bees are often left in the background. An exception is the motif of the older man on his – usually small – farm who lives from and with his bees. The article shows that this motif is a topos that appears in various texts of Greek and Latin literature of the imperial period. Depending on the intention behind these representations, different elements of the motif may be emphasised or omitted. These variations, and how the motif develops, are here shown through the example of different passages. [Author] Quotes Cato 54
Works:
Link: https://www.degruyterbrill.com/document/doi/10.1515/phil-2020-0104/html
Author initials: Berrens 2020
