Fidelity - a Gift of Gods and a Merit of People Christian reflection of the story of Philemon and Baucis from Ovid's Metamorphoses (VIII, 611-724)

• Authors: Petr Polehla
• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

EN

The article attempts at the Christian reflection of the story of Philemon and Baucis from Ovid's Metamorphoses. This Roman poet composed works that were often copied, imitated, translated, and allegorized by Christian authors not only during the Middle Ages. This kind of tradition shows that a pre-Christian work of literature can serve for a Christian reflection of a certain topic. How this story can be useful for our Christian perfection of virtue, especially fidelity, is the main topic of this article.

• Publisher: Sciendo
• Journal: E-Theologos. Theological revue of Greek Catholic Theological Faculty
• Year: 2011
• Volume: 2
• Issue: 1
• Pages: 26-33

Dates

published

2011-04-01

online

2011-04-29

Contributors

author

Petr Polehla

• Theological Institute, University of Hradec Králové

References

• M. VON ALBRECHT: Geschichte der römischen Literatur, DTV München 1997, 2nd ed. p. 644
• E. R. CURTIUS: Europäische Literatur und Lateinisches Mittelalter, Tübingen/Basel, 1993 (11th ed.)
• R. A. DWYER: Ovid in the Middle Ages
• S. GARTH, J. DRYDEN: Methamorphoses by Ovid, the English translation
• I. Johnston: Lecture on Ovid's Metamorphosis
• PUBLIUS OVIDIUS NASO: Ovidii Nasonis Metamorphoses ed. Rudolf Ehwald, Berlin 1903/E. Rösch, München 1961.[WoS]

Identifiers

DOI

10.2478/v10154-011-0003-4