La "canción del alba" en la literatura grecolatina

Abstract

La canción de alba románica es un campo bien definido y estudiado. Vamos a mostrar y estudiar aquí los ejemplos que en la literatura clásica grecolatina (completando el panorama con la literatura latina medieval) encontramos referidos a la separación de los amantes cuando llega el alba: tópico frecuente en todas las tradiciones líricas del mundo.

"The dawn-poem in Greek and Latin Literature". In Romanic literature there are sorne literary works known as dawn-poems. From them, in this paper, we aim to show examples ofthis type of poems in old Greek literature as well as in both the classical and mediaeval Latin one. What we are going to analyse is the lovers' parting when dawn comes. This is something frequent in ali lyric traditions in the world, although Ovid plays an outstanding role for the Mediaeval tradition.