https://www.peren-revues.fr/eugesta/1059 Entrées d’index fr 0 https://www.peren-revues.fr/eugesta/1624 In both the Metamorphoses and Fasti Ovid narrates the deification of Ino and her son Melicertes. In the Metamorphoses they become the Greek deities Leucothoe and Palaemon, while in the Fasti they also are identified with the Roman gods Mater Matuta and Portunus. Reading the two Ino passages together brings out the different focus of the Fasti on Roman religious aetiology, but also brings out the poems’ shared interest in deification, and specifically female deification. The two episodes are linked narratologically with the projected divinization of the empress Livia. mar., 14 oct. 2025 10:54:46 +0200 jeu., 27 nov. 2025 15:40:05 +0100 https://www.peren-revues.fr/eugesta/1624 https://www.peren-revues.fr/eugesta/1058 While in Virgil’s Aeneid mothers are evoked sporadically only to be marginalized by the epic’s forward narrative thrust, in his Metamorphoses Ovid pushes mothers centre stage, as subjects and protagonists of their own extended narratives, privileging rather than repressing their voices. This article surveys some of the interpretive and thematic possibilities of placing the maternal at the heart of a reading of Ovid’s epic. It argues that Ovid exploits the metamorphic potential of maternity, its conflation of the boundaries of the body, inside and outside, self and other, and its association with paradoxical roles and extreme passions, to explore and redefine aesthetics and personal relations in the Augustan era. The intense psychic struggles and emotional monologues of Ovid’s mothers, which are linked to motherhood as physical and bodily process, become key elements in this poem’s unprecedented exploration of the contradictory and multiple nature of subjectivity itself. jeu., 16 juin 2022 09:23:07 +0200 ven., 08 déc. 2023 12:43:00 +0100 https://www.peren-revues.fr/eugesta/1058 https://www.peren-revues.fr/eugesta/1287 This article explores Fiona Benson’s reception of Ovid in Vertigo & Ghost, examining the way in which she probes the horror and violence of narratives that have entertained and enchanted readers of the Metamorphoses for centuries. I contextualise Benson’s treatment of Ovid by situating it within recent trends of Ovidian reception, that are alert to the dark and disturbing undercurrents of his accounts of pursuit and sexual aggression. jeu., 08 déc. 2022 16:59:01 +0100 lun., 03 avril 2023 11:01:07 +0200 https://www.peren-revues.fr/eugesta/1287