Poetic Memory: Allusion In The Poetry Of Callimachus And The Metamorphoses Of Ovid

239 Pages·2004·4.15 MB·English

by  Heather Van Tress

POETIC MEMORY
MNEMOSYNE
BIBLIOTHECA CLASSICA BATAVA
COLLEGERUNT
H. PINKSTER •H.S. VERSNEL
I.J.F. DE JONG •P.H. SCHRIJVERS
BIBLIOTHECAE FASCICULOS EDENDOS CURAVIT
H. PINKSTER, KLASSIEK SEMINARIUM, SPUISTRAAT 134, AMSTERDAM
SUPPLEMENTUM DUCENTESIMUM QUINQUAGESIMUM OCTAVUM
HEATHER VAN TRESS
POETIC MEMORY
POETIC MEMORY
ALLUSION IN
THE POETRY OF CALLIMACHUS AND
THE METAMORPHOSES OF OVID
BY
HEATHER VAN TRESS
BRILL
LEIDEN•BOSTON
2004
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CONTENTS
Acknowledgements ......................................................................... ix
Chapter One Callimachus, Ovid, and Allusion ............................ 1
1. Introduction: Callimachus’ and Ovid’s “Callimacheanism”
and Allusion ........................................................................ 1
2. Genre and Allusion ............................................................. 4
3. Theories of Allusion: The Approaches .............................. 7
4. Organization of the Study .................................................. 21
Chapter Two A Well-Defined Scope: Lexical Integrative and
Reflective Allusions in the Prologue of Callimachus’ Aetia and
the Proem of Ovid’s Metamorphoses ............................................ 24
1. Introduction: Proems and Prologues .................................. 24
2. A Brief History of Interpretations ...................................... 26
3. (cid:451)(cid:505)(cid:474)(cid:541)(cid:471)(cid:514)(cid:322)(cid:589) .............................................................................. 31
4. Perpetuum Carmen ............................................................ 39
5. (cid:520)(cid:471)(cid:204)(cid:593)(cid:328)(cid:589) ................................................................................ 43
6. Deductum ........................................................................... 55
Chapter Three Broadening the Scope: Marking the Allusion
and Reiterative Integrative and Reflective Allusion ...................... 72
1. Introduction ........................................................................ 72
2. An Overview of Callimachus’ Lavacrum Palladis ............ 73
3. The Sources for Callimachus’ Tiresias and Actaeon ......... 75
4. An Overview of Ovid’s Tiresias and Actaeon ................... 80
5. The Sources for Ovid’s Tiresias and Actaeon .................... 81
6. Marking the Text ................................................................ 84
7. Callimachus’ Reiterative Reflective Allusions .................. 88
8. Ovid’s Reiterative Integrative and Reflective Allusions .... 97
9. Allusive Manipulation of the Texts ....................................105
10. Conclusion ..........................................................................110
Chapter Four Variation of the Trope: Reflective and Integrative
Allusion and Authorization within Callimachus’ Hymn to Delos
and Ovid’s Book 6 of the Metamorphoses ....................................111
1. Introduction ........................................................................111
2. An Overview of Callimachus’ Hymn to Delos ...................113
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3. Other Occurrences of Asteria and Leto ..............................114
4. Callimachus’ Hymn to Delos, the Hymnic Tradition, and
theHomeric Hymn toApollo ..............................................116
5. Callimachus’ Hymn to Delos and Pindar’s Poetry .............126
6. Conclusion I .......................................................................134
7. An Overview of Ovid’s Asterie, Delos, Niobe,
and Latona ..........................................................................136
8. Other Occurrences of Asterie, Niobe, and Latona
and the Lycian Colonists ....................................................138
9. Ovidian Allusion in Met. 6.108-383: Asterie, Niobe,
and Latona .........................................................................141
10. Conclusion II ......................................................................158
Chapter Five Boundaries of Genre? Allusion and Genre .............160
1. Introduction ........................................................................160
2. Two Erysichthons ...............................................................162
3. Sources for the Erysichthon Tale .......................................164
4. Callimachus’ Hymn to Demeter, Integrative Allusion,
and the Dislocation of Genre ..............................................167
5. The Preparatory Allusions ..................................................169
6. Callimachus’ Erysichthon and Homer ...............................171
7. Conclusion I .......................................................................178
8. Ovid’s Erysichthon, Homer and Virgil ..............................180
9. Ovid’s Reflective Allusions to Callimachus ......................185
10. Conclusion II ......................................................................189
Chapter Six Conclusion ................................................................191
Bibliography ....................................................................................197
1. Bibliography of Editions Consulted ...................................197
2. General Bibliography .........................................................198
Index of Passages Cited ...................................................................207
General Index ..................................................................................215
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
This study began during two extremely challenging and engaging
graduate seminars and one series of lectures given in the academic year
of 1994 -1995. In the fall semester of 1994 Professor E.B. Holtsmark
led a group of students through the entirety of Ovid’s Metamorphoses
and a considerable amount of contemporary scholarly literature. My
love of Ovid’s art is due to Professor Holtsmark’s quiet but infectious
enthusiasm. My fascination with poetic allusion began later that same
fall when Professor Stephen Hinds gave a series of lectures on Ovid
and allusion. The spring of 1995 brought with it another very challeng-
ing and inspiring seminar on Hellenistic poetry, given by Professor
Mary Depew. Few people can make such a difficult subject as interest-
ing and enjoyable as Professor Depew.
The years since the fall of 1997 have been spent in the Netherlands,
and the Radboud University Nijmegen has aided me considerably in
the continuance of my study and work. Professor A.H.M. Kessels has
invested innumerable hours in this work over the course of the past six
years, reading and commenting on every version of this study. Profes-
sor M.A. Harder, of the University of Groningen, has also read and
commented extensively on this book; her help has been invaluable. The
detailed suggestions of Professor R. Nauta, also of the University of
Groningen, has made this a better book. Thanks must also be given to
two other classicists at the Radboud University Nijmegen, Professor
A.P.M.H. Lardinois, whose enthusiasm and inspiring ideas have im-
proved this work immeasurably, and Dr. V.J.Chr. Hunink, whose sharp
eye and astute commentary have been extremely helpful. Many thanks
go to the Netherlands Organization for Scientific Research (NWO).
This organization believed in my research and made a luxurious six-
month sabbatical and the completion of this project possible.
Finally, I would like to thank Ms Gera van Bedaf and Mr Michiel
Klein Swormink at Brill for all of the time and energy they have put
into this book.