"Ovide-Actéon: les risques métamorphiques du regard des Métamorphoses aux Tristes"

ELEONORA TOLA

EUPHROSYNE: REVISTA DE FILOLOGIA CLASSICA

Centro de Estudos Clássicos. Facultade de Letras.

Lugar: Lisboa ; Año: 2008 p. 37 - 48

0870-0133

In the third book of his Metamorphoses, Ovid introduces Actaeon´s legend within the Theban Cycle. Actaeon´s transgression by the vision of Diana´s naked body leads to his metamorphosis into a stag which is then dismembered by his own dogs. Actaeon´s story evokes also Tiresias´ visual fault in Callimachus´ Hymn V. In the exilic Tristia Ovid mentions Actaeon and integrates his forbidden gaze to the plot of the narrator´s experience that presents exile as the place of all transformations. We will explore, from Ovid´s intertextual and autotextual allusions, how the Metamorphoses and theTristia operate also, in a metapoetic level, a metamorphosis. In fact, the most surprising transformation is that by which the same literary material - mythical, verbal, metric, etc.- is inserted in a metamorphic dynamics able to produce a new poetic ´body´.