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

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 This book is printed on acid-free paper. Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data A C.I.P. record for this book is available from the Library of Congress. ISSN 0169-8958 ISBN 90 04 14157 X © Copyright 2004 by Koninklijke Brill NV, Leiden, The Netherlands Koninklijke Brill NV incorporates the imprints Brill Academic Publishers, Martinus Nijhoff Publishers and VSP. All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, translated, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording or otherwise, without prior written permission from the publisher. Authorization to photocopy items for internal or personal use is granted by Brill provided that the appropriate fees are paid directly to The Copyright Clearance Center, 222 Rosewood Drive, Suite 910 Danvers, MA 01923, USA. Fees are subject to change. printed in the netherlands For my parents and for my husband CONTENTS Acknowledgements ......................................................................... ix Chapter One Callimachus, Ovid, and Allusion ............................ 1. Introduction: Callimachus’ and Ovid’s “Callimacheanism” and Allusion ........................................................................ 2. Genre and Allusion ............................................................. 3. Theories of Allusion: The Approaches .............................. 4. Organization of the Study .................................................. 1 1 4 7 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 ............................................ 1. Introduction: Proems and Prologues .................................. 2. A Brief History of Interpretations ...................................... 3. ǃǹǚȝǗȂłɍ .............................................................................. 4. Perpetuum Carmen ............................................................ 5. ȈǗÌɑňɍ ................................................................................ 6. Deductum ........................................................................... 24 24 26 31 39 43 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 ...................