| Autor: |
Paschalis, Sergios |
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Mnemosyne; 2021, Vol. 74 Issue 5, p851-872, 22p |
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Ovid's fascination with Catullus' Ariadne throughout his career has been the focus of considerable critical discussion and scholars have identified a plethora of Ovidian female figures imitating the speech of the Catullan heroine. This paper examines an overlooked incarnation of Catullus' Ariadne in the episode of the Tyrrhenian sailors (Met. 3.577-700). Bacchus stages a reenactment of the tale of Theseus and Ariadne in Catullus 64.50-266 by impersonating the deserted princess and casting the Tyrrhenians in the role of the perfidious hero. The study suggests that the Ovidian god constitutes a unique instance of a male character appropriating the voice of Catullus' female protagonist. Moreover, Bacchus' epiphany inverts its Neoteric model: the Catullan ecphrastic account of the Dionysiac thiasos is represented as a vivid narrative teeming with motion and sound, while in the Metamorphoses the Bacchic miracles are figuratively depicted as a still and silent scene in an ecphrasis. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR] |
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