Una nuova linea interpretativa della Conocchia di Erinna

Abstract

Erinna’s Distaff sketches not only a series of simple portraits of domestic life: in this short poem, the moaning for the death of her girlfriend Baucis breaks off the course of memory (cfr. for ex. AP 7.712), according to a structure later beloved by Theocritus. In the last lines, the alternation between exclamations of sorrow and hints at marriage becomes more and more close-knit: which could mean that the poem was getting near its end.