The Programmatic “Ordior” of Silius Italicus

P. Hay
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Abstract:This paper examines an intertextual reference to Ovid’s Ars Amatoria (3.101ff.) in the first word, ordior, of the Punica of Silius Italicus, and argues that Silius deploys this allusion to reclaim the didactic persona for a traditionalist moral narrative of Rome. Ovid’s passage concedes a fundamental change in Roman morals after the Punic Wars but, radically, proclaims a preference for the mores of his own time. Silius, with this allusive ordior, appropriates the didactic persona of the Ovidian interlocutor to reaffirm the traditional narrative. The ordior also connects the poem to Livy’s preface, which twice uses the verb while discussing how to begin a monumental work. The ‘window-reference’ allusion shows that Silius combines Ovidian poetics with a Livian perspective on Rome’s moral history.
西留斯·伊塔利乌斯纲领性的“奥迪奥”
摘要:本文考察了在西柳斯·伊塔利库斯的《布尼卡》的第一个词“ordior”中奥维德的《阿玛托里亚》(3.101ff.)的互文参考,并认为西柳斯利用这一典故为罗马的传统主义道德叙事重新确立了说教人格。奥维德的这段话承认罗马道德在布匿战争后发生了根本性的变化,但从根本上说,他更倾向于自己那个时代的道德。西柳斯,以这种暗示的方式,借用了奥维德对话者的说教角色,以重申传统的叙事。or迪奥还将这首诗与李维的序言联系起来,在讨论如何开始一部不朽的作品时,李维的序言两次使用了这个动词。“窗口参考”的典故表明,西柳斯结合了奥维德诗学和利维安对罗马道德历史的看法。
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