2004
Volume 58, Issue 3
  • ISSN: 0165-8204
  • E-ISSN: 2667-1573

Samenvatting

Abstract

Cario’s report on Plutus’ miraculous healing by Asclepius is both an intriguing testimony of the ritual and a comic parody of a tragic messenger-speech. This paper offers a literary close reading of the text with special emphasis on the interruptions by Chremylus’ wife and Cario’s position as . It ends by drawing attention to the remarkable similarity of Cario’s narrative to other, visual or textual (), depictions of , especially the double healing by both Asclepius (in a dream) and snakes.

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