LAS PROFECÍAS DE TIRESIAS EN EL CICLO TEBANO DE METAMORFOSIS DE OVIDIO
Keywords:
Theban Cycle, Tiresias, prophecy, prolepsis, narratorAbstract
Tiresias is the first character of the Theban Cycle, who despite of having endured the metamorphosis-punishment (blindness) stays alive and does not show any sign of future misfortune (Brisson 1976; 1997). His prophecies result in prolepsis that later are backed up and expanded by the narrator and the developing of the events supporting in this manner the unity of the Theban Cycle, and making clear the prophecies become true. Indeed, the prophecies not only result in the episodes of Narcissus and Pentheus but in the entirety Cycle (Fantham 2004:40). We are ready to demonstrate that legitimizing the wisdom of the fortune-teller the Ovidian narrator guides the reader to feel affection for the augur, and consequently gives him more credibility and authority in the frame of configuration of the god Bacchus. Then, Tiresias does not present arguments against Bacchus worships, which are finally imposed (4.605-606) and confer sense to the entirety of the Cycle.Downloads
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