Ovid and the Ass (Fast. 1.391-440, 6.319-46)

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Campo DC	Valore
dc.identifier	ECF_chapter_6543
dc.contributor.author	Garani Myrto
dc.title	Ovid and the Ass (Fast. 1.391-440, 6.319-46)
dc.type	Capitolo
dc.language.iso	en
dc.description.abstract	The focus of this paper is the double aetiology of the very first sacrifice of the ass in Ovid’s Fasti 1 and 6. I explore Ovid’s sources, in particular Hyginus’ Astronomica and Eratosthenes’ Catasterismoi and argue that the two Ovidian episodes look back to two Eratosthenic aetiological variants, both of which pertain to the catasterisation of the Asses. Regarding the significance of Priapus’ episode in the sacrificial list of Book 1, the sacrifice of the ass is programmatic for Ovid’s elegiac project: the donkey deserves to be sacrificed, since through its actions it undermines Priapus’ elegiac love and so poses a serious threat to the generic identity of the work. In Book 6 the ass is endowed with a national dimension, which was already inherent in Hyginus’ Eratosthenic version of the myth.
dc.relation.ispartof	Antichistica
dc.relation.ispartof	Filologia e letteratura
dc.publisher	Edizioni Ca’ Foscari - Digital Publishing, Fondazione Università Ca’ Foscari
dc.issued	2021-12-16
dc.dateAccepted	2021-06-23
dc.dateSubmitted	2021-05-17
dc.identifier.uri	http://edizionicafoscari.it/it/edizioni4/libri/978-88-6969-549-0/ovid-and-the-ass-fast-1391-440-6319-46/
dc.identifier.doi	10.30687/978-88-6969-548-3/028
dc.identifier.issn	2610-8828
dc.identifier.eissn	2610-9344
dc.identifier.isbn	978-88-6969-549-0
dc.identifier.eisbn	978-88-6969-548-3
dc.rights	Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International Public License
dc.rights.uri	http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
item.fulltext	with fulltext
item.grantfulltext	open
dc.peer-review	no
dc.subject	Ass
dc.subject	Ass
dc.subject	Eratosthenes’ Catasterismoi
dc.subject	Eratosthenes’ Catasterismoi
dc.subject	Hyginus’ Astronomica
dc.subject	Hyginus’ Astronomica
dc.subject	Priapus
dc.subject	Priapus
dc.subject	Programmatic
dc.subject	Programmatic
dc.subject	Sacrifice
dc.subject	Sacrifice

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Ovid and the Ass (Fast. 1.391-440, 6.319-46)

Myrto Garani National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Greece

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The focus of this paper is the double aetiology of the very first sacrifice of the ass in Ovid’s Fasti 1 and 6. I explore Ovid’s sources, in particular Hyginus’ Astronomica and Eratosthenes’ Catasterismoi and argue that the two Ovidian episodes look back to two Eratosthenic aetiological variants, both of which pertain to the catasterisation of the Asses. Regarding the significance of Priapus’ episode in the sacrificial list of Book 1, the sacrifice of the ass is programmatic for Ovid’s elegiac project: the donkey deserves to be sacrificed, since through its actions it undermines Priapus’ elegiac love and so poses a serious threat to the generic identity of the work. In Book 6 the ass is endowed with a national dimension, which was already inherent in Hyginus’ Eratosthenic version of the myth.

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16 Dicembre 2021

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23 Giugno 2021

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17 Maggio 2021

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978-88-6969-549-0

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978-88-6969-548-3

Keywords: Programmatic • Priapus • Hyginus’ Astronomica • Sacrifice • Eratosthenes’ Catasterismoi • Ass

permalink: http://doi.org/10.30687/978-88-6969-548-3/028

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