The contact between metamorphosis, metensomatosis, and vegetarian precepts in Pythagoras’ discourse in the last Book of Ovid’s Metamorphoses lays the text open to readings that undermine the salvific potential of its philosophical message. As the comparison with its model shows (Cic. Cat. 27), even the passage about Milo’s old age (Met. 15. 228-236) seems to imply that Pythagoras does not take much seriously his own role as liberator of humanity from the fear of death.
Il pianto di Milone (Ov. Met. 15. 228-236) e altre ironie ovidiane
Franco C
2020-01-01
Abstract
The contact between metamorphosis, metensomatosis, and vegetarian precepts in Pythagoras’ discourse in the last Book of Ovid’s Metamorphoses lays the text open to readings that undermine the salvific potential of its philosophical message. As the comparison with its model shows (Cic. Cat. 27), even the passage about Milo’s old age (Met. 15. 228-236) seems to imply that Pythagoras does not take much seriously his own role as liberator of humanity from the fear of death.File in questo prodotto:
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