TY - JOUR AU - Santilli, Elena PY - 2018/02/28 Y2 - 2024/03/28 TI - Riflessioni comparative: la Sibilla come frontiera letteraria dell’identità dei popoli JF - Altre Modernità JA - AMonline VL - IS - 0 SE - Saggi Ensayos Essais Essays DO - 10.13130/2035-7680/9709 UR - https://riviste.unimi.it/index.php/AMonline/article/view/9709 SP - 131-144 AB - <p>Sibyl is a mythological figure that provides an opportunity to reflect on the conscious comparativism in the past.<br />Through the ananlysis of four texts (Paus., Per., I, 2,2; Or. Sib., III, vv. 813-823; Erma, Vis., I e II; Mundus Origo, vv. 1-6), in which the Sibyl is described as a prototype of the classical, jewish and christian prophetic imaginary, we discuss among the possibility of a comparative attitude of authors from the Classical Age to the Late Antiquity.<br />The tipology of Sibyl's descriptions can explain the role of this seer in order to define an &lt;identity island&gt;. This approach demonstrates how different and distant populations elaborated a mythological boundary, a frontier where an evolutive, historical and genetic contact was possible, according to the method founded by A. Gnisci and M. Detienne, in collaboration with the psycological-mythological parameter.<br />As a metamorphic clone, the Sibyl provides a consideration on the usefulness of contents offered by a silent comparativism of the past. It gives a new perspective to the modern-contemporaneus comparativism, evaluating the necessity of a dialogue between literatures and cultures in a synchronic and diachronic sense.</p> ER -