No Cock-Up
Sophisticated Classical Allusion in the Medieval Pseudo-Ovidian Metamorphosis Flaminis in Gallum
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 21303839 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Kyle Gervais (Western University, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2021 |
| Volume | 116 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 563-587 |
| Publication date | 2021-10-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Classical Philology (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0009-837X • E-ISSN: 1546-072X |
| Publisher | University of Chicago Press (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1086/716055 |
| OpenAlex | W3201974852 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 7 |
I offer an intertextual analysis of a medieval Pseudo-Ovidian metamorphosis (found in the margins of a fourteenth-century manuscript of the Metamorphoses). This forty-four-line hexameter poem, which details the sexual misconduct of a flamen dialis with a band of Vestals and their subsequent metamorphosis into chickens, engages in sustained and sophisticated fashion with Classical Latin poetry. The poem’s many allusions not only establish its Virgilian-Ovidian credentials, but also articulate its central theme (love as a blasphemous, destructive force) and advance a self-conscious claim to the poem’s place within the long tradition of Latin poetry that stretches back to the Classical period
Aesthetics · Allusion · Art · Biology · Literature · Metamorphosis · Period (music) · Poetry · Theme (computing) · Classical Antiquity Studies · Historical, Religious, and Philosophical Studies · History · Medieval Literature and History · Philosophy
| Citation velocity | historical |
|---|---|
| Highly cited | No |