Delectare oder docere? Zitate aus den Werken des Ovid in einem Emblembuch aus dem 17. Jahrhundert
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2009
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Wydawnictwo Naukowe Uniwersytetu im. Adama Mickiewicza
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Delectare or docere? Quotations from Ovid’s Works in the 17th Century Emblem Books
Abstract
The aim of this paper is to emphasise the fact that quotations from Ovid’s Ars amatoria or Remedia
amoris are often used in seventeenth-century emblem books to confirm moral truths. Quotations
from Ovid’s works play an important role in Jacob Cats’ Silenus Alcibiadis. A detailed analysis will
cover emblematic subscriptiones that include quotations from or clear references to Ovid’s works as
an important construction element of the composition of an emblem. It turns out that words of the
Roman poet taken from works with a parody note are used in this emblem book with clearly
didactic and moralizing aim.
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Ovid, emblem books, Jacob Cats, moralizing literature
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Symbolae Philologorum Posnaniensium, 2009, nr XIX, pp. 345-353
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978-83-232-2153-1