INTERCULTURALIDADE E TRADIÇÃO: AS ACEPÇÕES DE VÊNUS E AFRODITE NO PERVIGILIUM VENERIS

Abstract

In this work, we will study the Pervigilium Veneris, a 93-verse hymn to Venus, written by Florus in the second century d.C., which aims to boast the deeds of the goddess, singing and worshipping in her image, showing how her birth provided the ordination and development of nature, which, for his sake, spouted in perpetual spring. During the study of the poem, we observed that the poet uses two images of Aphrodite, goddess of erotic love and the spread of life, recurrent in the mythical tradition of Archaic Greece, to create his image of Venus. Therefore, we decided to explore this peculiarity of the hymn, aiming to understand how Florus makes these two different meanings of Aphrodite reflected in the figure of Venus, which he shapes in his poem. For the unfolding of the research, we will translate the text philosophically established by Giglio Gregorio Gyraldi de Ferrare (1545), which we find in the book La Veillée de Vénus (2003), by Robert Schilling, looking at the excerpts of the poem that are relevant to the analysis; we will also use the theoretical contribution of Codoñer (2010), Mandolfo (2011), Shanzer (1990), and others, as well as consulting some texts of the Greco-Latin literary tradition, such as Plato's Symposium to elucidate certain possible intertextualities.