Autore: Faughnan, Honor
Titolo: Daphne’s Aratea: Astronomical Hunting and the Dog Star in Ovid, Cicero, Vergil, and Lucretius
Rivista/Miscellanea: Classical Philology, Volume 120, 1
Anno edizione: 2025
Pagine: 44-69
Parole chiave: Philosophie - Filosofia - Philosophy, Poesia - Poesie - Poetry
Descrizione: This article explores evidence that Ovid’s famous simile comparing Apollo to a dog and Daphne to a hare (Met. 1.533–39) is based on an astronomical model: the Canis Major section of Cicero’s Aratea, in which Sirius perpetually hunts the Hare (Arat. 120–25). It argues that this section of the Aratea was particularly influential, and that Ovid engages with it in his Apollo and Daphne episode via astronomically inflected passages in Aeneid 10 and De rerum natura 3, examining Aratus’ star-map as a vehicle for intertextual engagement. It thus testifies to the importance of the Aratean tradition in late Republican and Augustan poetry [Author].
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Sigla autore: Faughnan 2025
Titolo: Daphne’s Aratea: Astronomical Hunting and the Dog Star in Ovid, Cicero, Vergil, and Lucretius
Rivista/Miscellanea: Classical Philology, Volume 120, 1
Anno edizione: 2025
Pagine: 44-69
Parole chiave: Philosophie - Filosofia - Philosophy, Poesia - Poesie - Poetry
Descrizione: This article explores evidence that Ovid’s famous simile comparing Apollo to a dog and Daphne to a hare (Met. 1.533–39) is based on an astronomical model: the Canis Major section of Cicero’s Aratea, in which Sirius perpetually hunts the Hare (Arat. 120–25). It argues that this section of the Aratea was particularly influential, and that Ovid engages with it in his Apollo and Daphne episode via astronomically inflected passages in Aeneid 10 and De rerum natura 3, examining Aratus’ star-map as a vehicle for intertextual engagement. It thus testifies to the importance of the Aratean tradition in late Republican and Augustan poetry [Author].
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Sigla autore: Faughnan 2025
