Riflessioni sugli acrostici di Valerio Flacco

Reading Eustathios of Thessalonike

“…In recent years, many significant efforts have been made to pinpoint this technique in ancient Greek and Latin literature. Indicative studies are : Castelletti 2008;Id. 2012a;Id.…”

The Muse at Play: An Introduction

“…13 Sometimes "rediscovery", if one counts their mention in work from over a century ago by Isidor Hilberg, on which see below in the text, with n. 17. Examples since 2006 (i.e., from five years prior to ) include the following: Bielsa (i) Mialet 2006 and 2010 (both wide-ranging), Hurka 2006 (Cicero, Aratea), La Barbera 2006 (Ovid andClaudian), Katz 2007 (Vergil, Aeneid), Castelletti 2008 and 2012b (Valerius Flaccus; the latter paper reports what "would be the only example of a Greek word used in acrostic within a Latin poem" [320]) and 2012a (Vergil, Aeneid; proposes that the Aeneid opens with an exceptionally elaborate acrostic-cum-telestich in addition to reporting another acrostic-cum-telestich near the start of Aratus), Gore and Kershaw 2008 (Apuleius), and Grishin 2008 (Vergil, Eclogues), as well as Colborn Forthcoming (Manilius; demonstrates on the basis of an acrostic that Manilius composed Book 1 of the Astronomica after Germanicus' Aratea). See also Katz 2008 (Vergil, Georgics; discusses acrostics but is in the first place about another form of wordplay).…”