DictynnaPub Date : 2021-12-01DOI: 10.4000/dictynna.2625
M. Fucecchi
{"title":"Silio Italico lettore di Ovidio: due esempi*","authors":"M. Fucecchi","doi":"10.4000/dictynna.2625","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4000/dictynna.2625","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":30340,"journal":{"name":"Dictynna","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"88979944","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
DictynnaPub Date : 2020-12-17DOI: 10.4000/dictynna.2461
F. Bessone
{"title":"L’illusione del lettore. Aretusa e i suoi racconti in Ovidio, Metamorfosi 5","authors":"F. Bessone","doi":"10.4000/dictynna.2461","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4000/dictynna.2461","url":null,"abstract":"La storia di Aretusa da lei narrata in met. 5 rappresenta ‘La versione di Aretusa’: una versione del mito in apparenza inedita, o piuttosto incompleta, accelerata nel finale e avallata per interesse da due narratrici interne e dal narratore esterno. Solo qui, in apparenza, Alfeo non raggiunge Aretusa in Sicilia e non mescola le sue acque con lei. L'illusione del lettore e un principio della poetica ovidiana: qui, nonostante l'impressione creata in chi legge, i dati sono compatibili con la versione tradizionale, vari segni nel testo alludono alla conclusione nota del mito, e tutto suggerisce la tendenziosita del racconto della ninfa. I livelli narrativi sovrapposti sono tutti solidali nel celebrare l'eroica resistenza di una ninfa alla violenza erotica, che e lo scopo di ogni racconto: di Aretusa a Cerere, di Calliope alle ninfe giudici, della Musa a Minerva, del narratore ai lettori delle Metamorfosi. La ninfa-Musa, fonte di ispirazione nella poesia bucolica, e una narratrice consapevole, degna di prendere la parola nelle parole delle Muse; ed e una narratrice interessata, che manipola il racconto delle proprie origini, dell'inseguimento di Alfeo, della traversata sottomarina, e rivendica solo a se tutta la gloria delle “acque di Elide” a Ortigia. Ovidio costruisce la storia di Aretusa dialogando con Virgilio: la decima Egloga, il quarto libro delle Georgiche, l'esordio di Eneide 2 e il finale di Eneide 3. Il racconto di Enea e richiamato con segnali esibiti; Aretusa lo corregge sul punto che la riguarda e – come Enea secondo Ovidio – non puo evitare di apparire una narratrice inaffidabile.","PeriodicalId":30340,"journal":{"name":"Dictynna","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-12-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"82341011","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
DictynnaPub Date : 2020-12-17DOI: 10.4000/dictynna.2167
Laurel Fulkerson
{"title":"Trapped between Scylla and Ciris: Some Thoughts on Poetic Structure1","authors":"Laurel Fulkerson","doi":"10.4000/dictynna.2167","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4000/dictynna.2167","url":null,"abstract":"This chapter treats the relationship between the pseudo-Vergilian Ciris and Ovid’s Scylla-episode in Book 8 of the Metamorphoses. It does not, however, make any claims about who wrote the Ciris, or even about which text influenced which: studies of Prioritatsbestimmung are legion, dating back for a century, and in large part unconvincing, not least because they disagree about the criteria to be used in determining priority. Instead, I offer a readerly treatment of Ovidian intertextuality vis a vis pseudepigraphic poetry. In particular, I will be exploring the mutually reinforcing gaps in the two narratives. These gaps have usually been seen as clues to which author is derivative; I suggest that they instead offer insights into the different poetic goals of the two authors.","PeriodicalId":30340,"journal":{"name":"Dictynna","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-12-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"87342326","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
DictynnaPub Date : 2020-12-17DOI: 10.4000/dictynna.2277
A. Sharrock
{"title":"Noua … corpora: New Bodies and Gendered Patterns in the Metamorphoses","authors":"A. Sharrock","doi":"10.4000/dictynna.2277","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4000/dictynna.2277","url":null,"abstract":"This article explores metamorphic outcomes in Ovid’s Metamorphoses. While the poem may be steeped in constant mutability, for the most part gender emerges as a surprisingly static feature, and one that carries remarkable weight also when read beside the aftermaths of Ovidian transformations. Though there may be no fixed schema that categorically establishes disparities in the final destinations of male and female transformations, I show that there are significant gendered patterns with some perhaps unexpected consequences for class and social status also. In considering the poem’s main destinations, we can see distinct patterns of outcomes: heavily gender-based for trees, gender-significant (albeit not simply determined) for watercourses, gods, and stones, and gender-equal in the case of birds and other animals. The article tackles some of the unconscious gender preconceptions at play, and explores the enduring significance of gender for the Metamorphoses within the various outcomes of those who become victims, or occasionally beneficiaries, of Ovidian metamorphosis.","PeriodicalId":30340,"journal":{"name":"Dictynna","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-12-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"89124729","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
DictynnaPub Date : 2020-12-17DOI: 10.4000/dictynna.2221
Andrew Feldherr
{"title":"Writ in Water: Seeing Time in Ovid’s Narcissus Episode*","authors":"Andrew Feldherr","doi":"10.4000/dictynna.2221","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4000/dictynna.2221","url":null,"abstract":"This article explores the representation and thematic importance of time within Ovid’s account of Narcissus. It argues that perceiving Narcissus for the characters within Ovid’s narrative provokes a recognition of the experience of time that becomes central to both the tragic and erotic aspects of his story. In presenting Narcissus as both the subject of a diachronic narrative and a static image, Ovid at once uses the medium of his representation to illustrate his theme and makes his poem a mirror in which his own audience can apprehend the mutability of time.","PeriodicalId":30340,"journal":{"name":"Dictynna","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-12-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"76859981","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
DictynnaPub Date : 2020-12-17DOI: 10.4000/dictynna.2123
Barbara W. Boyd
{"title":"Still, She Persisted: Materiality and Memory in Ovid’s Metamorphoses1","authors":"Barbara W. Boyd","doi":"10.4000/dictynna.2123","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4000/dictynna.2123","url":null,"abstract":"This paper examines how a complex of ideas involving memory and materiality can offer a new way to view metamorphosis in Ovid’s Metamorphoses. Through the embodiment of power in transformed things, Ovid uses several of the episodes in the poem to push back against mutability and loss of speech, and to assert a different kind of permanence. Much of Ovid’s discourse about memory and materiality is linked through the trope of aetiology, i.e., the explanation of how something that exists now came into existence at a specific point in the past. Aetiology is by its nature a form of mnemonic device: it both highlights the enormous gulf separating past and present, and ensures temporal and cultural continuity. The aetiological narrative thus establishes its subject as a sign of permanence in an otherwise constantly changing landscape.","PeriodicalId":30340,"journal":{"name":"Dictynna","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-12-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"79823516","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
DictynnaPub Date : 2020-12-17DOI: 10.4000/dictynna.2176
J. Fabre-Serris
{"title":"Ovide lecteur de Sulpicia ?Déclaration amoureuse et stratégies d’énonciationdans le Corpus Tibullianum 3.11, 3.13 et l’Héroide 4","authors":"J. Fabre-Serris","doi":"10.4000/dictynna.2176","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4000/dictynna.2176","url":null,"abstract":"Les poemes 3.11, 3.13 du Corpus Tibullianum et l’Heroide 4 donnent la parole a une femme qui proclame son desir pour un homme dans des circonstances reprouvees par la morale : une relation hors mariage, qu’elle a amorcee ou voudrait amorcer. Ces poemes ont en commun un certain nombre de similarites verbales et thematiques, trop particulieres pour etre dues au hasard et qui, en poesie latine, sont a interpreter comme des renvois allusifs. En prenant pour hypothese de lecture d’une part que l’elegie 3.11 a ete ecrite, comme l’epigramme 13, par Sulpicia, d’autre part qu’Ovide s’est refere a ces deux textes, ou une femme reelle proclamait son amour, au moment de mettre le meme type de declaration dans la bouche d’une heroine fictive, cet article etudie les strategies d’enonciation : narratives et argumentatives, choisies par les deux poetes pour mettre en scene une voix feminine qui parle de son desir et celebre son succes en amour ou argumente en faveur de sa realisation. Sa visee est de conforter ces deux hypotheses par la pertinence des resultats obtenus quand on prend cette perspective de lecture et qu’on analyse les passages de l’Heroide 4 qui partagent des expressions avec Sulpicia comme des variations imaginees sur les memes motifs, revelatrices des choix thematiques et de la personnalite des deux poetes.","PeriodicalId":30340,"journal":{"name":"Dictynna","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-12-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"86074324","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
DictynnaPub Date : 2020-12-17DOI: 10.4000/dictynna.2218
G. Rosati
{"title":"Gallo in Virgilio e Saffo in Ovidio: due meta-poeti nella riflessione della Lydia pseudo-virgiliana","authors":"G. Rosati","doi":"10.4000/dictynna.2218","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4000/dictynna.2218","url":null,"abstract":"Nella Lydia pseudo-virgiliana, che e il lamento di un poeta-amante infelice, riecheggiano tessere espressive della decima ecloga virgiliana insieme ad altre provenienti dall’Epistula Sapphus di Ovidio, cosi come spiccano chiare analogie tematiche sul rapporto tra mondo bucolico e mondo elegiaco, e sulla difficolta di conciliarli. Mescolando le voci elegiache del Gallo virgiliano e della Saffo di Ovidio, il testo pseudo-virgiliano (che evidentemente ritiene autentica l’Epistula Sapphus) anticipa la critica odierna nel mostrare l’analoga funzione metapoetica svolta dalle figure dei due poeti. Ma oltre a questo, esibendo vistosi tratti di stile ‘galliano’, la Lydia sembra anche gettare luce sui modelli letterari dell’elegia latina, e ricondurre Gallo alle sue probabili ascendenze saffiche.","PeriodicalId":30340,"journal":{"name":"Dictynna","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-12-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"86895012","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
DictynnaPub Date : 2020-12-17DOI: 10.4000/dictynna.2317
M. Labate
{"title":"Le imprese degli eroi: strutture catalogiche nell’Eneide e nelle Metamorfosi","authors":"M. Labate","doi":"10.4000/dictynna.2317","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4000/dictynna.2317","url":null,"abstract":"L’articolo studia le modalita secondo cui in Virgilio e soprattutto in Ovidio sono trattate le storie relative agli ‘eroi piu grandi’ (Ercole e Teseo). L’epica augustea sceglie la strada della narrazione ampia di singoli episodi in cui si dispiegano le qualita eroiche del personaggio (Ercole contro Caco in Virgilio, Ercole contro Acheloo, Ercole contro Nesso in Ovidio), ma al tempo stesso non rinuncia alla possibilita, anzi quasi alla necessita, di un riferimento trasversale ad altre storie della serie e anzi alla serie nel suo complesso. La struttura formale attraverso cui questo riferimento si attua e quella di catalogo delle imprese, che rielabora moduli innici e aretalogici desunti dalla tradizione della lirica e della tragedia, sia nella forma del canto di celebrazione della vittoria (epinicio), sia in quella della celebrazione delle virtu e delle imprese dell’eroe morto (threnos).","PeriodicalId":30340,"journal":{"name":"Dictynna","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-12-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"74941755","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}