This means that his work encourages the speaker to slow down and to luxuriously take in each line. Metrical analysis shows that Vergil’s Aeneid is relatively dominated by spondees, the feet which have two long syllables. Ovidian reinvention of the 'facts of Peleus', a mythological subject of consistent poetic background, exemplifies the narrative organisation of the innovative epic of the Metamorphoses, and reveals some aspects of Ovid’s literary self-consciousness.Įdizioni Ca’ Foscari - Digital Publishing, Fondazione Università Ca’ FoscariĬreative Commons Attribution 4. Metrically, Ovid’s epic differs from that of his slightly earlier contemporary, Vergil. Translated by Sir Samuel Garth, John Dryden, et al. Peleus and Ceyx’s episode is compiled by Ovid in the form of the dramaturgical episode which includes four characters acting and interacting (Peleus, Ceyx, Onetor, Alcyone). This function is extensively articulated in Book 11 where Ovid creates a narrative interstice, that of Peleus in exile at the court of Ceyx at Trachis ( met. Metamorphoses, poem in 15 books, written in Latin about 8 ce by Ovid. a character who shifts the narrative action in the plot of the poem. The paper focuses on Peleus as a marker character in narrative diegesis of Ovid’s Metamorphoses, i.e.
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