Tibullo 2,5 e l'Eneide: l'intertestualità possibile

The article focuses on the relationship between Tib. 2,5 and Verg. Aen., with the aim of defining a third way of interpretation between scholars who support and those who deny a massive influence of the Aeneid on Tibullus’ elegy. In fact, if one accepts a high date for Tib. 2,5, setting it at 21 or at most 20 BC, and if one considers the much-debated Entstehung of the Aeneid, composed by Virgil particulatim, one cannot exclude a priori that it was Virgil, dead in Sep- tember 19 BC, who read Tib. 2,5, and not just the other way around. The main aim is to delineate a biunivocal intertextual relationship between the two authors, a sort of fluid reciprocity between the elegy 2,5 and certain places in the Virgilian epic poem (particularly in Book eight), which is not unbalanced ex auctoritate in favour of the priority of the Aeneid nor does it completely reject the possibility of a dependence on Tibullus. In the final part of the contribution, a certain analysis of Prop. 4,1, which combines reminiscences from Aen. 8 with reminiscences from Tib. 2,5, is proposed to authorise this biunivocity as a key to studying the rela- tionship between Aen. 8 and Tib. 2,5, which are configured as the two poles of an open dialogue as a mutual exchange of homage in a set of allusive correspond- ences that Propertius intuits and recombines as a sign of extreme literary greeting to two admired poets who passed away a few years earlier.