El plano de la ‘lectura’ en la ‘Eneida ovidiana’ (Met., XIII, 623- XIV, 608): Ovidio, Virgilio y el Aeneas Romanus

Abstract

Apart from the "mythologization", the purpose of which is to include the stories of this long sequence in the preceding plot by creating a "mythologized" universal history, there are in the so-called "Ovidian Aeneid" textual marks that keep Aeneas’ character and story present, in accordance with the Roman meaning of the hero and, especially, with his apotheosis, which puts an end to the sequence. Such marks constitute what we have called the level of "reading". In this paper the allusions to the Aeneas Romanus are examined in relation to the “Ovidian Aeneid”. This Aeneas Romanus is especially based on Virgil’s epic, which Ovid follows as a general meaning, even beyond occasional references to previous traditions not included by Virgil We understand by Aeneas Romanus the character who is turned by Virgil both into a legacy of the Roman culture and an original family myth, given the canonical nature of his Aeneid. Among these allusions, it has a central role the term Cythereius heros in Ringkomposition, which refers to Aen., I, 257-258 and secures the Virgilian value of the sequence in the level of "reading".