Connecting the End to the Beginning : Ovid, Metamorphoses, I, 1 2 and Plato, Timaeus, 92c

Abstrakt

The article argues for not only an overall influence of Plato's Timaeus on the cosmogony in Ovid's Metamorphoses, but for the possibility of a more direct textual echo of Timaeus, 92c1-2 in Metamorphoses, I,1-2. Regardless of their obvious differences, both texts address changes of body that proceed from states of mind, and it is these changes that the reader must espouse in their imagination.

Klíčová slova

• Ovid
• Metamorphoses
• Plato
• Timaeus
• mind and body
• animal bodies