Publication details
P. Ovidius Naso a další římští básníci v cestopisu Kryštofa Haranta z Polžic a Bezdružic
| Title in English | P. Ovidius Naso and Other Roman Poets in the Travelogue of Christopher Harant of Polzice and Bezdruzice |
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| Year of publication | 2017 |
| Type | Appeared in Conference without Proceedings |
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| Description | The learned travelogue of Christopher Harant of Polzice and Bezdruzice and at Pecka etc. presents an outstanding material for an intertextual analysis. The author leaves no doubt as to the real aim of his travelogue, which was not only to inform Czech readers about his adventurous journey to the East (undertaken in extremely dangerous times of a Turkish war), but to enlighten them in terms of both factual and moral instruction. The travelogue contains a remarkable quantity of quotations of authorities of a very wide time and thematic range, from antiquity to the beginning of the 17th century, from Homer to the most recent literature. The corpus of authorities quoted by Harant includes also Roman poetry. The paper dealt with the reception of the personality and work of Publius Ovidius Naso in the travelogue, also in comparison to other Roman poets. In the travelogue, Ovid appears only as a quotation authority, not a historical personality (in contrast to other ancient authors, e. g. M. Tullius Cicero, Saint Jerome). Harant knows a couple of Ovid's works, he quotes even the "controversial" Ars amatoria (and in a quite striking context). Ovidian allusions can be found in dedicatory poems, which were appended to the travelogue, as well. The contribution analyzed Harant's quotations from Ovid with regard to their form and content, and also discussed the question how likely it is that Harant actually worked with Ovid's works and did not take the information from other sources. |