Lucano e il carme 64 di Catullo

For a better understanding of Lucan’s poetic art it seems useful to broaden the search of his possible models to poetic texts other than the epic, tragic or historiographic ones. In this sense, Catullus, in particular his c. 64, can be considered an important model of the Neronian poet: the intertextual relationship between Lucan’s epic and Catull. 64 consists of strong linguistic, thematic and stylistic consonances. The analysis shows structural and formal similarities with some sections of the Catullian poem (e.g. the incipit of c. 64, the episode of Ariadna, the Thessalic setting of the story of Tethys and Peleus, the epilogue of the epillion) filtered through the poetic tradition following Catullus