De ingeniosa maledicentia: Estêvão Rodrigues de Castro e a recepção de Arquíloco no Renascimento

Abstract

The present study, motivated for the reading of some epigrams of the Portuguese medician and poet of the XVIth and XVIIth centuries Estêvão Rodrigues de Castro, intents to analyze the construction, from Antiquity to Renaissance, of the connections between Archilochus (VIIth cent. B.C.) and personal abusive poetry. Some of the known written and iconographic sources will be boarded of, so we arrive at the Portuguese humanist and see in him the reception of a motif already made into paradigm. We intend to demonstrate that more than Archilochus' poetic work - whose poems against the Licambids, in its majority, we only know from late papyrological sources - what influenced this and other humanists were the Greek and Latin texts witch associated the iambographus from Paros with the personal satire.