Nulli sua forma manebat (Met. 1.17): On the Corporeality of Ovid’s Metamorphoses

Darab, Ágnes (2025) Nulli sua forma manebat (Met. 1.17): On the Corporeality of Ovid’s Metamorphoses. ACTA ANTIQUA ACADEMIAE SCIENTIARUM HUNGARICAE, 65 (1). pp. 45-61. ISSN 0044-5975

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Abstract

The starting point for recent analyses of the corporeality of the narrative of Ovid’s Metamorphoses is the double semiotics of the Latin word corpus, which refers to both the living human body and the book. My own reading is inspired by the fact that the narrative body (nova corpora) of the poems prologue and the flesh-and-blood body (corporis huius) of its epilogue unite the textual body of the Metamorphoses, which can be read as a performance that takes place between these two points. This essay reads Ovid’s Meta morphoses through the lens of this performance that takes place in the corpora represented in the Meta morphoses’ creative process of both the textual (Daphne, Io, Syrinx, Echo, Pierides, Marsyas, Orpheus) and the visual (Deucalion and Pyrrha, Arachne, Narcissus, Pygmalion) artwork.

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