Eurialo e Niso: fides e perfidia

After an hint at the Palladium’s rape by means of Ulysses and Diomedes –an example of Greek unfairness– the author takes into consideration the two episodes of the Aeneid in which Euryalus and Nisus appear: the night expedition across the Rutili’s camp, and the race during the funeral games in memor...

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Autor: Perotti, Pier Angelo
Tipo de documento: artigo
Estado:Versão publicada
Data de publicação:2000
País:España
Recursos:Universidad de Valladolid
Repositório:UVaDOC. Repositorio Documental de la Universidad de Valladolid
OAI Identifier:oai:uvadoc.uva.es:10324/35578
Acesso em linha:http://uvadoc.uva.es/handle/10324/35578
Access Level:Acceso aberto
Palavra-chave:Filología clásica
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Resumo:After an hint at the Palladium’s rape by means of Ulysses and Diomedes –an example of Greek unfairness– the author takes into consideration the two episodes of the Aeneid in which Euryalus and Nisus appear: the night expedition across the Rutili’s camp, and the race during the funeral games in memory of Anchises. In the article two opposite features in the two characters are pointed out, loyalty (“fides”) and unfairness or fraud (“perfidia”) in both events. The author therefore thinks that Virgil’s admiration for the two young men is caused not only by their entreprise, but expecially by their even heroic friendship, that leads them to die together, the one for the other.