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The Intertextual Fate of a Great Homeric Hero: Diomedes in Vergil (Aen. 11.252-93) and Ovid (Rem. 151-67)

Michalopoulos, Andreas N. (2003) The Intertextual Fate of a Great Homeric Hero: Diomedes in Vergil (Aen. 11.252-93) and Ovid (Rem. 151-67). Acta Antiqua, 43 (1-2). pp. 77-86. ISSN 0044-5975

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Abstract

In this paper I argue that the subtext for Ovid's positive portrayal of Diomedes at Rem. 151-167 is the Vergilian episode of Diomedes' reply to the embassy of the Latins (Aen. 11.252-93), and that the adjustment of this episode to the frame of Ovid's erotic didactic is achieved through a number of similarities in diction and theme. Ovid's treatment of the Vergilian Diomedes, however, is subversive and the Vergilian narrative is being undermined and reworked in a brand new way.

Item Type: Article
Subjects: P Language and Literature / nyelvészet és irodalom > PA Classical philology / klasszika-filológia
Depositing User: xKatalin xBarta
Date Deposited: 30 Jan 2017 08:43
Last Modified: 30 Nov 2023 00:15
URI: http://real.mtak.hu/id/eprint/46652

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