Ovid's Apollo and Daphne: a Foolish God and a Virgin Tree

Barnard, Mary E.

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dc.creator	Barnard, Mary E.
dc.date	1981/11/30
dc.date.accessioned	2024-09-20T17:19:01Z
dc.date.available	2024-09-20T17:19:01Z
dc.identifier.uri	http://repositorio.filo.uba.ar:8080/xmlui/handle/filodigital/18064
dc.description	In his legend of Apollo and Daphne (Metamorphoses 1.452-567) Ovid deforms and figure. He degrades the sun-god, lowering him to the level of a comic strips the Olympian of his divine powers and solemnity and transforms him into a human lover+. Foolish in his urgency to capture the elusive Daphne, the deity enters more and more into the realm of eomedy. Phoebus appears next in the guise of a predatory hound and lastly as a mechanized figure clutching a tree. Descending, as in a chain of being, the god Apollo becomes human, animal, and machine. Ovid deprives the narrative of all qualities which might have endowed the sun-god with human pathos or tragedy. Apollo is clearly the foolish lover in contrast to Daphne who is not comic and who acts to mend the ‘‘split’”’ between her alluring body, which had attracted Apollo, and her virgin self. To preserve her identity, her conception of herself as virgin, she surrenders her body to metamorphosis
dc.description	Fil: Barnard, Mary E. Universidad de Buenos Aires. Facultad de Filosofía y Letras. Instituto de Historia Antigua y Medieval “José Luis Romero”; Argentina.
dc.format	application/pdf
dc.format.extent	353-362
dc.language	eng
dc.publisher	Universidad de Buenos Aires. Facultad de Filosofía y Letras. Instituto de Historia Antigua y Medieval
dc.rights	info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess
dc.rights	https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/
dc.source	Anales de Historia Antigua y Medieval. Vol. 18/9
dc.subject	ANÁLISIS LITERARIO
dc.subject	TRAGEDIA GRIEGA
dc.title	Ovid's Apollo and Daphne: a Foolish God and a Virgin Tree
dc.type	info:eu-repo/semantics/article
dc.type	info:ar-repo/semantics/artículo
dc.type	info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion