Pierre Bersuire as interpreter of Ovid's Metamorphoses: remarks on the Flood, Lycaon and Phaethon in the Ovidius Moralizatus
Main Article Content
Abstract
The purpose of this paper is to focus on the interpretation the Ovidius moralizatus makes of some episodes linked to natural disasters in Books 1 and 2 of Ovid's Metamorphoses: the Flood, Lycaon, and Phaethon. I will seek to highlight aspects in which Bersuire's reading seems to provide an interpretation that, in addition to being Christian, illuminates aspects of Ovid's stories. The texts will be compared in order to highlight, in the allegorical function of Bersuire's, the particular meaning that this Christianized Ovid sometimes shows.
Downloads
Article Details
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License.
Works are released under a Creative Commons License (Creative Commons 4.0. Atribución-NoComercial-CompartirIgual) - since n. 19 (2014) - which provides unrestricted use, copy and redistribution in any medium or format and remix, transform and build upon the original work properly cited. The Creative Commons License stipulates that: "You must attribute the work in the manner specified by the author or licensor (but not in any way that suggests that they endorse you or your use of the work)."
N. 1 (1994) to N. 17 (2012) works are released under Creative Commons 2.5 Atribución-NoComercial-SinDerivadas Argentina (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/2.5/ar/). N. 18 (2013) released under Creative Commons 3.0 Atribución-NoComercial-CompartirIgual 3.0 (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/deed.es_AR).
References
Anderson, W. S. (1989). Lycaon: Ovid’s Deceptive Paradigm in Metamorphoses 1. ICS, 14, 91-101.
Anderson, W. S. (1996). Ovid’s Metamorphoses, Books 1-5. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press.
Cartoux, A. (2018). Phoébus et Phaéthon dans les Métamorphoses: la mythologie ovidienne comme miroir du Prince inversé. Interférences [En ligne], 11, 1-20. https://doi.org/10.4000/interferences.6395 DOI: https://doi.org/10.4000/interferences.6395
Doblhofer, E. (1973). Ovid ein ‘Urvater der Résistance’? Beobachtungen zur Phaethonerzählung in den Metamorphosen, 1,747–2, 400. En W. Danhofer (Ed.), 400 Jahre Akademisches Gymnasium Graz. Festschrift (pp.143-154). Graz: Verlag des Akademisches Gymnasium in Graz.
Due, O. S. (1974). Changing Forms: Studies in the Metamorphoses of Ovid (Classica et Mediaevalia: Dissertationes, X). Copenhagen: Gyldendal.
Engels, J. (1971). L'Edition critique de l'Ovidius moralizatus de Bersuire. Vivarium, 9, 19-24. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1163/156853471X00028
Ghisalberti, F. (1933). L’“Ovidius moralizatus” di Pierre Bersuire. Roma: Ditta tipografia Cuggiani.
Hexter, R. (1989). The Allegari of Pierre Bersuire. Interpretation and the Reductorium morale. Allegorica, 10, 51-84.
Kretschmer, M.T. (2016). L’Ovidius moralizatus de Pierre Bersuire. Essai de mise au point. Interfaces, 3, 221-244. https://10.13130/interfaces-7625
Levine, R. (1989). Exploiting Ovid. Medieval Allegorizations of the Metamorphoses. Medioevo romanzo, 14, 197-213.
Martínez Astorino, P. (2017). La apoteosis en las Metamorfosis de Ovidio: diseño estructural, mitologización y ‘lectura’ en la representación de apoteosis y sus contextos. Bahía Blanca: Ediuns.
Munk Olsen, B. (1987). Ovide au moyen âge (du ixe au xiie siècle). En G. Cavallo (Ed.), Le strade del testo (pp. 67-96). Bari: Adriatica.
Poulle, B. (2002). Phaéton et la légitimité d’Auguste. En M. Fartzoff, É. Smadja y É, Geny (Eds.), Pouvoir des hommes, signes des dieux dans le monde antique (pp. 125-134). Besançon: Institut des Sciences et Techniques de l'Antiquité.
Reynolds, W. D. (1990). Sources, Nature and Influence of the Ovidius moralizatusof Pierre Bersuire. En J. Chance (Ed.), The Mythographic Art: Classical Fable and the Rise of the Vernacular in Early France and England (pp. 83-99). Gainesville: University of Florida Press.
Schmitzer, U. (1990). Zeitgeschichte in Ovids Metamorphosen. Mythologische Dichtung unter politischem Anspruch. Stuttgart: De Gruyter. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110948035
Tarrant, R. J. (2002). Chaos in Ovid's Metamorphoses and its Neronian Influence. Arethusa, 35, 349-360. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/are.2002.0026
Tarrant, R. J. (2004). P. Ovidi Nasonis Metamorphoses. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
Van der Bijl, M. S. (1971). Petrus Berchorius, Reductoriummorale, liber XV: Ovidius moralizatus, cap. ii. Vivarium, 9, 25-48. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1163/156853471X00037
Wenzel, S. (2011). Ovid from the pulpit. En J. G. Clark, F. T. Coulson y K. L. McKinley (Eds.), Ovid in the Middle Ages (pp. 160-176). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Wheeler, S. (2000). Narrative Dynamics in Ovid’s Metamorphoses. Tubinga: Narr.