entity_relationships: 2467
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| relationship_id | subject_entity_id | relationship_type | object_entity_id | confidence | rationale | source_id | review_status | period_id |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2467 | ENT_ITA_CARMENTA | reception_of | ENT_MNEMOSYNE | low | The Camenae — the archaic Latin prophetic water-nymphs of whom Carmenta is the most prominent — were explicitly identified with the Muses (daughters of Mnemosyne) by Livius Andronicus in his translation of Homer's Odyssey (c. 240 BCE), where he renders 'Mousa' as 'Camena.' This makes Carmenta, as chief Camena, a Latin reception/equivalent of the Muse tradition that derives from Mnemosyne (Memory). Confidence low: the identification is of the Camenae-as-class with the Muses-as-class, not a specific Carmenta-Mnemosyne equation. Cicero, Acad. 1.3; Livius Andronicus, Odusia fr. 1 Warmington. | SRC_VARRO_ANTIQ | reviewed | PER_ITA_ARCHAIC |