Language:
French
Year of publication:
2023
Titel der Quelle:
Revue Biblique
Angaben zur Quelle:
130,3 (2023) 321-344
Keywords:
Ovid, Criticism and interpretation
;
Ovid,
;
Bible Appreciation
Abstract:
The question of the relationship to Augustus’ religious reform has always divided the exegetes of Ovid’s Fasti. Despite many signs of admiration for the emperor in the poem, someone claimed that it would be a form of masked resistance. The development of secondary aitia, where the gods of Augustan Olympus seem too human, even shameful, would be part of this form of opposition. In the texts which we will study briefly, we have the impression that the poet knows traditions which seem to have 'biblical parallels' or to echo stories of the Hellenized East. These are: the three 'men' whom Abraham saw at the oak of Mamre (Gen 18:1-15), the chiasmus of Isa 22:22 and the story of torches linked by Samson to the tails of foxes (Judg 15:1-8).
DOI:
10.2143/RBI.130.3.3291754
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