Pub Date : 2020-07-14DOI: 10.1093/oso/9780198864066.003.0002
A. Barchiesi
The influence of the Metamorphoses on Western culture is of such magnitude that the preceding tradition is at risk of vanishing from sight. Nonetheless, Ovid’s poem obviously stems from the Greek tradition. On many points, Ovid’s sources have been mapped and precursors pointed out. This chapter’s exposé turns the perspective in a most illuminating way: instead of looking for similarities, it uses the conclusions of previous research to define more closely what actually makes Ovid different from his precursors. In this way, the chapter is able to define a number of instances where Ovid on the one hand utilizes tradition, but on the other hand also transforms it and approaches metamorphosis in new ways. The instances the chapter maps span a wide register: state of origin and destination of the transformation, kinds, causes, and reversibility of metamorphosis, aetiological and genealogical functions, issues of continuity and communication, et cetera. Applying this perspective, the chapter paves the way for a number of new, future studies.
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Pub Date : 2020-07-14DOI: 10.1093/oso/9780198864066.003.0011
Louise Vinge, N. Johansson
Chapter 10 brings the transforming force of reading Ovid’s epic up to the present, by offering a view of the differences in the scholarly situation encountered by two researchers investigating the Narcissus theme at the distance of half-a-century—one in the 1960s, the other in the 2010s. The first part of the chapter gives a view of the scholarly conditions under which Vinge prepared her celebrated work on the Narcissus theme in the mid-1960s. In the second part, Johansson presents an overview of scholarly investigations of the Narcissus theme over the fifty years since the publication of Vinge’s study. The theoretical advances in literary studies as well as the growth of research on the Narcissus tradition has made it difficult to grasp the entire history of the theme. In the resulting divergence of perspectives, there arises an implicit disagreement not only about the meaning of Narcissus, but also about how Narcissus is conceptualized in the first place.
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