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In this paper an interpretation of the use of expressions as 'inspiration' and 'enthusiasm' in the context of the platonic poetology is suggested. This interpretation tries to clarify the apparent contradiction between the platonic statement that (1) the poet had no knowledge and (2) poetry possibly can offer true contents. So the chance of decoding the figurative use of these expressions through the epistemological notion coined by Plato of 'true belief' is investigated. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Cadmus' episode opens book III of Ovid's Metamorphoses and puts him in the crossing of a double foundation: that of the Theban Cycle and that of a poetics of transgression that extends over the whole text. Such poetics is based on the gaze as a factor of sacrilegious behaviours. In this sense, the main components of Cadmus' story are scattered through the other narrations of Metamorphoses III, which develop them according to their own plot. The profanation of the nemora sacra constitutes the departure point of the cycle of misfortunes of the Theban family. It's closure is the final metamorphosis of Cadmus and his wife Harmonia into serpents. In this paper we intend to explore the construction of this poetics founded on prohibition in Metamorphoses III. We will make emphasis on the idea of transgression related to the metamorphic process suffered by its characters. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The present paper offers a commentary on Callimachus' fragment 227 Pf. Firstly we discuss the fragment possible location in the poet's book of lambi, which has been matter of a long and controversial discussion among the scholars. Secondly, we examine the text of the diégesis and, finally, I study the poem main difficulties to conclude with a brief reflection upon the theme of the symposium. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Luis Cemuda has explicitly revealed in his essays his passion for mythology and its anthropomorphic gods. This passion, which accompanied him since his early childhood, determined the transcendental presence of Greco-Roman myths in his poetry. As his work is essentially autobiographical, these myths constitute an important source for the poet's self-knowledge, and for us, it is a valid and valuable means to understand him. The present essay focuses on a myth whose reception in La Realidady el Deseo is specially significant: the myth of Narcissus. Tracing back to Conon's and Pausanias' myth versions, and focalizing on Ovid's as an evident source, this paper offers an approximate interpretation of the ultimate meaning of its reception in Cemuda's poetry. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The tale of Odysseus' successful nostos includes motifs that come from the traditional symbolic repertoire relative to a thanatos— motifs which aid in the thematic development of the hero's nostos. This paper traces a series of thanatic elements in the second part of The Odyssey, beginning in Book 13, to explore its function as part of the discursive strategies used by the poet to generate, through different procedures, the necessary narrative tension to keep the audience's attention. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]