Ovid's Narcissus ( Met. 3.339-510): Echoes of Oedipus

Gildenhard, Ingo; Zissos, Andrew

doi:10.1353/ajp.2000.0006

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“…Oedipus and the books of the Ars, 'these latter day parricides in elegiac feet', 66 professed at the 63 See Sharrock (1994), 212, on Ovid usurping Apollo's authority. 64 Already suggested by Loewenstein (1984), 33-56, andHardie (1988), 86; see especially Gildenhard -Zissos (2000), Frings (2005), 164-5. 65 Pavlock (2009), 14-37.…”

Section: While His Interchangeability With Oedipus Looks Forward To Tmentioning

confidence: 98%

“…The beginning of the so-called Sostratus version of the myth 56 tells us directly of Apollo's involvement in Tiresias' punishment, where Tiresias is presented as a second Cassandra or Daphne, 57 punished for rejecting further sexual intercourse with Apollo in exchange for the god's teaching of music or, as O'Hara more plausibly suggests, 'prophecy': 58 53. Gildenhard and Zissos (2000), 132 n.14. See also Frings (2005), 164-7.…”

Section: Genre Conversions: Tiresias/ovid As Vatesmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Already suggested by Loewenstein (1984), 33–56, and Hardie (1988), 86; see especially Gildenhard and Zissos (2000), Frings (2005), 164f.…”

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TIRESIAS, OVID, GENDER AND TROUBLE: GENERIC CONVERSIONS FROMARSINTOTRISTIA

Giusti¹

2018

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The brief story of Tiresias’ punishment in the third book of Ovid's Metamorphoses (Met. 3.316–38) becomes a privileged site for mapping the different ways readers can reinterpret episodes of the poem in the light of the rest of Ovid's corpus. Tiresias, the first human uates of the poem, who is punished with blindness for voicing what he should have kept silent, can be included among those punished artists who double the poet in the Metamorphoses: while Tiresias is condemned for having voiced his knowledge of both sexes, Ovid is exiled for giving amatory advice to, and therefore knowing, both men and women. Thus the Tiresias episode reads as a pendant to that of Actaeon in the same book (the latter explicitly likened to Ovid's fate in Tristia 2.103–8), with the pair suggesting a veiled allegory of the carmen and error that caused Ovid's exile.

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Section: While His Interchangeability With Oedipus Looks Forward To Tmentioning

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Section: Genre Conversions: Tiresias/ovid As Vatesmentioning

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Giusti¹

2018

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“…Like Tiresias, Pentheus is descended from the Spartoi: he is the son of Agave, one of the four daughters of Cadmus and Harmonia, by Echion, one of the five survivors of the Sown-men's fratricidal slaughter, whose name means 'serpent' in ancient Greek. 59 'Pentheus', too, is a speaking 57 For Narcissus as a substitute for Oedipus see Gildenhard and Zissos (2000a). 58 Met.…”

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2016

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“…Loewenstein, ) have pointed out that these stories depart from their traditional sequence, and that the story of Narcissus, which has no place at all in the Theban myths, is told in the place normally occupied by the important story of Oedipus and the House of Laius. “Even more surprisingly,” comment Gildenhard and Zissos (), Ovid “does not make up for this peculiar omission elsewhere in the poem” (p. 130). Underlining this curious textual metamorphosis are myriad correspondences – a veritable “inter‐textual extravaganza” (p. 130) – between Ovid's Narcissus and Sophocles' Oedipus Rex , which preceded the Metamorphoses by 500 years.…”

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Under the mirror of the sleeping water: Poussin'sNarcissus

Tutter

2014

The International Journal of Psychoanalysis

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Examined in conjunction with a close reading of Ovid's Metamorphoses, Nicolas Poussin's four paintings on the preoccupying theme of Narcissus and Echo reflect a developing aesthetic interpretation of its textual source. Poussin's reflective vision supports a radical reappraisal of the enigmatic myth at the heart of psychoanalytic theory and practice, in which Narcissus is construed as a far more object-related figure that seeks the formative, affirmative mirroring of the other. This in turn encourages a more versatile conceptualization of narcissistic disturbance, in which an etiologically heterogenous constellation of issues stems from a variety of disturbances in the myriad dynamic and developmental aspects of mirroring and attunement: the narcissisms.

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Ovid's Narcissus ( Met. 3.339-510): Echoes of Oedipus

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TIRESIAS, OVID, GENDER AND TROUBLE: GENERIC CONVERSIONS FROMARSINTOTRISTIA

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