Daphne's Aratea: Astronomical Hunting and the Dog Star in Ovid, Cicero, Vergil, and Lucretius.
This article explores evidence that Ovid's famous simile comparing Apollo to a dog and Daphne to a hare (Met. 1.533–39) is based on an astronomical model: the Canis Major section of Cicero's Aratea , in which Sirius perpetually hunts the Hare (Arat. 120–25). It argues that this section of the Aratea...
| Publicado en: | Classical Philology Vol. 120; no. 1; pp. 44 - 70 |
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University of Chicago Press
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