Christine Ratkowitsch, from the manipulation of myth. The Paris / Helen myth in Ovid (calc. 16/17)

Christine Ratkowitsch, from the manipulation of myth. The Paris / Helen myth in Ovid (calc. 16/17) and Baudri of Bourgueil (carm. 7/8). Collection Latomus 334 Bruxelles: Éditions Latomus,, sirui tripod review 2012. Pp 105 ISBN 9,782,870,312,759th 20.00 (pb).
Reviewed by Wilfried sirui tripod review H. Lingen Mountain, Saarland University (W.Lingenberg @ mx.uni-saarland.de) Version at BMCR home site The poetic letter inviting than almost any other genre of literature sirui tripod review to write a manipulative: sirui tripod review recipient is an individual, the communication can So be matched to fit exactly the opposite. Unlike the dramatic dialogue, but is (in single letter) only one side to speak, who must do everything we can to give their subjective interests validity; thereby allows the writing from the outset every artifice of literary design. Christine Ratkowitsch has studied the "biased" view of Paris / Helen myth in bogus letter pairs from Antiquity and the Middle Ages.
In a short introduction (5-17) Ratkowitsch first outlined how ancient and medieval poet processed the Trojan myth cycle, where they received detailed to the anonymous Versepistel sirui tripod review Deidamia Achilli from the end of the eleventh century sirui tripod review and their relation to the third Heroidenbrief (Briseis Achilli). sirui tripod review Each one of the three main chapters is then epist the double letter pair. 16/17 Paris / Helena (18-55) as well as the letter pairs Carm. 7/8 Paris / Helena (56-76) sirui tripod review and 200/201 Baldricus / Constantia (77-91) Out of Bourgueil Eric's dedicated. A summary concluding remarks (92-95) follow Bibliography (96-99) and index locorum (100-104).
"Myth is ... open to different interpretations" (Ratkowitsch 5), and the letter writer put it in each case according to its special intentions different dar. To weave unlike Paris Ep. 16 characteristically both Oenone in the fifth Heroidenbrief and Helena in Ep. 17 ihrejeweiligen descriptions of beauty judgment on the Ida the detail of the nakedness of a three goddesses;, more neutral, Oenone, however, out of jealousy "maliciously exaggerated" Helena, sirui tripod review who wants to provide the reliability of the report in question anyway (Ratkowitsch 45f). In the chapter on antique double letter pair Ratkowitsch investigated this and other examples of divergent myths use, taking it relies heavily on already known and recorded in the comments observations, but is primarily a comparison with Virgil's Dido and Aeneas in a new thoroughness. In fact, both of these myths can be contrasted sirui tripod review to in many of the details in it: Aeneas obeys the fatum and decides against the love for the hostess to set up people and city, Paris also faces subjected to an oracle and enters his love for the advena 1, follows but his feeling and thus destroy the people sirui tripod review and the city. If Ratkowitsch draws many interesting parallels here, she looks like but of course, that these are marked only in a few exceptional cases really significant echoes in wording or motifs - in contrast to those with the fifth Heroidenbrief, sirui tripod review other individual letters as well as the Ovidian love poetry, and also in contrast to the many clear references to the Aeneid in Bald Erich letter pair. Was that the double letter writer to refer specifically to Virgil (as Ratkowitsch often), it is therefore just can not say, and in particular I see no sound basis for their conclusion (39-41 and 54f), the poet was Virgil supported by Augustan sirui tripod review ideology manipulation of want to counteract sirui tripod review myth, by contrast, continued his own. The different myths treatment in the double letters and Virgil explained rather easily and completely even from their own literary aims of the authors.
The chapter on Bald Eric Carm. 7/8 is the extension of an earlier work Ratkowitsch '2 The medieval poet himself is the substance to the film for the display of the Christian virtues, not the least of marital fidelity. Of central importance is the allegorical sirui tripod review interpretation by Fulgence in the early sixth century Paris on Mount Ida, each represented by Venus, Juno and Minerva to decide between voluptuosa vita, vita activa and vita contemplative, - and choose incorrectly, namely against the monastic ideal of the contemplative life. Balderich himself with Carm. 154 left a versification of Fulgentius' Mythologiae and knowledge of the allegory is also the reader of his Paris / Helen-letter pair ahead. 3 Paris it at that but not only lack of insight into this error, it turns out otherwise than poor performer myths, such as when he in his polemic against Greek homosexuality calculated at the legendary figure of Gany