{"title":"A Note On Propertius 4.1.25–26","authors":"J. Richardson","doi":"10.1353/CLW.2021.0013","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT:At 4.1.25–26 Propertius has a plowman perform the rites of the Lupercalia. But the Luperci were usually conceived of as herdsmen, and a plowman is hardly a suitable choice for a ritual that required those performing it to run about the place. This note suggests that Propertius is alluding to a second ritual, one which did involve a plow and which was also connected–like the Lupercalia– with Rome’s founders, Romulus and Remus.","PeriodicalId":46369,"journal":{"name":"CLASSICAL WORLD","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.2000,"publicationDate":"2021-05-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1353/CLW.2021.0013","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"CLASSICAL WORLD","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.1353/CLW.2021.0013","RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"0","JCRName":"CLASSICS","Score":null,"Total":0}
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ABSTRACT:At 4.1.25–26 Propertius has a plowman perform the rites of the Lupercalia. But the Luperci were usually conceived of as herdsmen, and a plowman is hardly a suitable choice for a ritual that required those performing it to run about the place. This note suggests that Propertius is alluding to a second ritual, one which did involve a plow and which was also connected–like the Lupercalia– with Rome’s founders, Romulus and Remus.
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Classical World (ISSN 0009-8418) is the quarterly journal of The Classical Association of the Atlantic States, published on a seasonal schedule with Fall (September-November), Winter (December-February), Spring (March-May), and Summer (June-August) issues. Begun in 1907 as The Classical Weekly, this peer-reviewed journal publishes contributions on all aspects of Greek and Roman literature, history, and society.