Cupid, Apollo, and Daphne (Ovid, Met. 1. 452 ff.)

Autor:	W. S. M. Nicoll
Rok vydání:	1980
Předmět:	Literature History Literature and Literary Theory biology Poetry business.industry Prologue media_common.quotation_subject Apollo Context (language use) Art EPIC biology.organism_classification Elegiac Reflexive pronoun Philosophy Classics business media_common
Zdroj:	The Classical Quarterly. 30:174-182
ISSN:	1471-6844 0009-8388
DOI:	10.1017/s000983880004129x
Popis:	The general significance of Ovid's Apollo-Dapbne (Met. 1. 452 ff.) within its immediate context seems plain enough. Ovid's technique, as Otis remarks, is to set epic pretensions beside elegiac behaviour and thus to show a struggle between incompatible styles of life and poetry. Yet the episode still poses certain problems. These mainly concern the significance of the story within the wider context of the opening of Ovid's poem. One difficulty is hinted at by Otis himself. He observes that with the Apollo-Dapbne and Jupiter-10 (1. 568 ff.) Ovid has ‘deflated his divine prologue’. Yet elsewhere3 Otis remarks that in one sense the gap between the behaviour of the gods in the concilium deorum (1. 163 ff.) and their philandering in the Daphne and Io stories is very slight.
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