The poetic invention of the “Cyclop in love” comes from Theocritus, who reelaborates the theme in a completely original fashion and proposes two distinct versions in each of his bucolics (Idyll VI and XI). The comparison between the two Theocritean versions allows us to notice in them the diversity of rhetorical strategies that are put to work by the poet on the structural, stylistic, metric and linguistic level. In a perfect intertextual sequence between Greek Hellenistic literature and Latin Augustan literature, Ovid adapts the refined Theocritean story of the Cyclops Pholyphemus, in love with the Nymph Galatea, to the epic context of his Metamorphoses (XIII, 738 ss.), but, at the same time, introduces significant innovations: rhetoric and poetic both collaborate to create a new narrative register.
LA OBSESIÓN DE AMOR ENTRE NARCISISMO Y LOCURA HOMICIDA: EL CASO DE POLIFEMO EN OVIDIO, METAMORFOSIS 13, 738-897
Maria Silvana Celentano
2017-01-01
Abstract
The poetic invention of the “Cyclop in love” comes from Theocritus, who reelaborates the theme in a completely original fashion and proposes two distinct versions in each of his bucolics (Idyll VI and XI). The comparison between the two Theocritean versions allows us to notice in them the diversity of rhetorical strategies that are put to work by the poet on the structural, stylistic, metric and linguistic level. In a perfect intertextual sequence between Greek Hellenistic literature and Latin Augustan literature, Ovid adapts the refined Theocritean story of the Cyclops Pholyphemus, in love with the Nymph Galatea, to the epic context of his Metamorphoses (XIII, 738 ss.), but, at the same time, introduces significant innovations: rhetoric and poetic both collaborate to create a new narrative register.I documenti in IRIS sono protetti da copyright e tutti i diritti sono riservati, salvo diversa indicazione.
