Open AccessQuis hoc credat? O leitor e as Metamorfoses de Ovídio
Author(s) -
Mariana Musa de Paula e Silva
Publication year - 2011
Publication title -
nuntius antiquus
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2179-7064
pISSN - 1983-3636
DOI - 10.17851/1983-3636.7.2.48-80
Subject(s) - poetics , poetry , character (mathematics) , reading (process) , relation (database) , face (sociological concept) , literature , art , computer science , linguistics , philosophy , mathematics , data mining , geometry
This paper intends to analyze a certain relation constructed between the reader, the poet and the poem in selected passages of Ovid’s Metamorphoses book I. The reading we are going to propose will reveal itself as a new understanding of the poem in face of the recent studies which highlight the self-referential character of ovidian poetics. We intend to demonstrate, although briefly, that the reader has a highlighted role within the complex commentaries made by the poet about his own poetry.