Epic narrators in the 'Metamorphoses'

• Authors: Gloviczki Z.
• Languages of publication: HU

Abstracts

EN

The song of Calliope (5.338 - 678) and Orpheus' cycle (10.1 - 11.84) in the 'Metamorphoses' are not only parallels of each other, but also can be regarded as miniatures of the larger Ovidian poem. This analysis of the two tale-groups shows a structural balance in the well-known variety of the whole 'Metamorphoses', and gives further ways to the interpretation of them - as a kind of poetic self-reflexion and conscious aesthetical evidence. This role of the Orpheus-story revises our image on Ovid's Virgil-imitation as well. We emphasize the dramatic importance of the selfrepresenting bard instead of any parodistic or emulative attitude.

Keywords

EN

'METAMORPHOSES'; OVIDIUS; VERGILIUS

Discipline

• PHILOLOGY_&_LINGUISTICS: PHILOLOGY & LINGUISTICS

• Publisher: Akadémiai Kiadó
• Journal: Antik Tanulmanyok (Studia Antiqua)
• Year: 2007
• Volume: 51
• Issue: 1
• Pages: 55-70
• Document type: ARTICLE

Contributors

author

Gloviczki Z.

• Z. Gloviczki, no address given, contact the journal editor

Identifiers

CEJSH db identifier

08HUAAAA03927778