Author: Franco, Cristiana
Title: Il pianto di Milone (Ov. Met. 15, 228-236) e altre ironie ovidiane
Review/Collection: Studi Italiani di Filologia Classica, 4a ser., 18.1
Year edition: 2020
Pages: 41-57
Keywords: Héritage - Fortuna - Legacy, Philosophie - Filosofia - Philosophy
Description: 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 (Cic. Cat. 27) shows, 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. [Author]
Works:
Author initials: Franco 2020
Title: Il pianto di Milone (Ov. Met. 15, 228-236) e altre ironie ovidiane
Review/Collection: Studi Italiani di Filologia Classica, 4a ser., 18.1
Year edition: 2020
Pages: 41-57
Keywords: Héritage - Fortuna - Legacy, Philosophie - Filosofia - Philosophy
Description: 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 (Cic. Cat. 27) shows, 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. [Author]
Works:
Author initials: Franco 2020
