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Giusti, Elena (2018) Tiresias, Ovid, gender and trouble : generic conversions from Ars into Tristia. Ramus, 47 (1). pp. 27-57. doi:10.1017/rmu.2018.5
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Official URL: https://doi.org/10.1017/rmu.2018.5
Abstract
Ovid’s brief Tiresias episode in the third book of his Metamorphoses (Met. 3.316-38) represents one of the most eloquent examples of Ovidian self-representation and contamination between his elegiac, epic and exilic corpora. Tiresias’ chauvinistic statement on the nature of women’s sexual pleasure constitutes the first point of connection between the Theban seer and the praeceptor of the Ars Amatoria. Additionally, as it has already been noted for the Actaeon story that precedes the Tiresias episode (which is explicitly paralleled by Ovid himself to his own fate in Tristia 2.103-8), Met. 3.316-38 also features what anachronistically sound like unmistakable echoes of the obsessive language and themes displayed throughout the Tristia. Such resonances, coupled with similarities between Tiresias and the praeceptor amoris, invite us to read Tiresias’ undeserved punishment at the hands of Juno as a double of Ovid’s own punishment for writing the Ars, a recognition which may also shed further light on Livia’s involvement in the verdict on Ovid’s exile.
| Item Type: | Journal Article | ||||||||
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| Subjects: | P Language and Literature > PA Classical philology | ||||||||
| Divisions: | Faculty of Arts > Classics and Ancient History | ||||||||
| Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH): | Ovid -- 43 B.C.-17 A.D. or 18 A.D. -- Criticism and interpretation, Metamorphosis -- Mythology -- Poetry | ||||||||
| Journal or Publication Title: | Ramus | ||||||||
| Publisher: | Cambridge University Press | ||||||||
| ISSN: | 0048-671X | ||||||||
| Official Date: | June 2018 | ||||||||
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| Volume: | 47 | ||||||||
| Number: | 1 | ||||||||
| Page Range: | pp. 27-57 | ||||||||
| DOI: | 10.1017/rmu.2018.5 | ||||||||
| Status: | Peer Reviewed | ||||||||
| Publication Status: | Published | ||||||||
| Publisher Statement: | This article has been published in a revised form in Ramus https://doi.org/10.1017/rmu.2018.5. This version is free to view and download for private research and study only. Not for re-distribution, re-sale or use in derivative works. © Ramus 2018 | ||||||||
| Access rights to Published version: | Restricted or Subscription Access | ||||||||
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