Article
Ovid, on the Birth of Love (Met. I 452 ff.)
Author/s | Pérez Vega, Ana María |
Department | Universidad de Sevilla. Departamento de Filología Griega y Latina |
Publication Date | 1998 |
Deposit Date | 2018-11-05 |
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Abstract | The charm of the Apollo and Daphne myth inspires admiration,
particularly in its amatory facet, the aspect which has attracted most
attention. But the myth also examines love and pain, alongside the
elements of prophecy ... The charm of the Apollo and Daphne myth inspires admiration, particularly in its amatory facet, the aspect which has attracted most attention. But the myth also examines love and pain, alongside the elements of prophecy and virginity, as the true nature of poetry, symbolized by the laurel of Apollo. It also deals with love -and its opposite, the philosophical principles of separation and combination- as primum mobile in a civilizing rewriting of Hesiod and his primary, generative love. Here Ovid fuses the charm of elegy with the cosmogonic hymn, didactic wisdom and the epyllion. |
Project ID. | PS94- 0096
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Citation | Pérez Vega, A.M. (1998). Ovid, on the Birth of Love (Met. I 452 ff.). Exemplaria: revista internacional de literatura comparada, 2, 15-23. |
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