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One of the most interesting passages in El Libro de Alexandre, a text that updates for the Middle Ages the life of Alexander the Great and adds certain fantastic aspects, is, with no doubt, the finding of Poro's Palace, located in India. In this episode, the Macedonian king finds a tree made of gold that is an automat, it means a kind of robot that moves itself by certain physical forces. In this paper, the author tries to get deeper in this passage and reveals its intra and extratextual functions, as well as its intertextual and extratextual relationship, concerning other literary works and historical aspects. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper comprehends an analysis of the characteristics given by Callimachus to Artemis in his Hymn III. On that account, I suggest and uphold the hypothesis that the poet presents in his mythical version a development or evolution of the goddess which leads her from one state of παῖς to a transformation into a δαίμων, subsequently into a θεά and finally into an ἄνασσα/πότνια. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The purpose of this paper is to recall from oblivion and analyze the translations of the Anacreontea that were published by some members of a literary group called the "Mexican Arcadia" at the start of the 19th Century in El Diario de México. In this journal a translation of Anacreontea 38 (Campbell) by Flagrasto Cicné (pseudonym of Francisco Manuel Sánchez de Tagle) was printed, as well as two different translations of Anacreontea 24, one probably due to Sánchez de Tagle himself, while the other was the one Luzán included also in his Poetic (Zaragoza, 1737); likewise, Moschus' erotic epigram included in the Greek Anthology (XVI, 200) was translated by Manuel Martínez de Navarrete and published twice within a couple of months in the same journal. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper analyzes the proem of Parmenides' poem to the scope of showing how it is skillfully constructed both at the level of the artistic finish and as regards the communicative frame, which is designed to pose a challenge to the intelligence of the hearer. Actually, the receiver is exposed to a bundle of stimuli quite often contradictory, ranging from expressive ambiguity to subtle insinuation, with effects that are indeed devised to strike very sensitive chords in his/her mind. On these assumptions, it is then argued that the contrast between the fascinating story narrated in the allegorical proem and the really philosophical section of Parmenides' poem may depend on their gestation at two different stages in this philosopher's life. It is on the first of them that the influence of the Homeric epos is inescapable. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]