Furor impius / non impia ira: comparaciones de hombres con leones en la obra de Blosio Emilio Draconcio

Abstract

The main purpose of this research is to show the similarities and differences between the comparisons of Gunthamund, Telamon and an anonymous uir fortis with lions in Dracontius' poems and the similes related with them within the precedent literary tradition. Once established that the presence of certain quotes from Latin classical literature in this African poet's texts is mediated by the previous appropriation of those same lines by other Christian authors in their works, we will examine the relationship between the sense implicit in the three similes proposed by Dracontius and their different narrative contexts.