Sustainable Ovid? Humans, Hunting, and the Environment in Ovid’s Metamorphoses
My argument is that one of the ways to ‘sustain’ the reading of Ovidian and other pre-modern poetry in the contemporary world is to explore it through the lens of the greatest challenge of our time, the ecological crisis. In this paper, I take hunting as a trope with which to examine the relationshi...
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| description | My argument is that one of the ways to ‘sustain’ the reading of Ovidian and other pre-modern poetry in the contemporary world is to explore it through the lens of the greatest challenge of our time, the ecological crisis. In this paper, I take hunting as a trope with which to examine the relationships between different inhabitants of the biosphere, using the stories of Actaeon and of the Calydonian boar hunt to show how Ovid’s Metamorphoses can draw the reader into engagement with clashes of needs and values, that have been at work since before the dawn of civilisation, and have reached a level of unprecedented urgency in the 21st century. |
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| spelling | doaj-art-a2a2a40ae830451e98809270edb116042025-01-30T14:29:04ZdeuUniversité Lille-3Dictynna1969-42021765-31422024-12-012110.4000/12vk6Sustainable Ovid? Humans, Hunting, and the Environment in Ovid’s MetamorphosesAlison SharrockMy argument is that one of the ways to ‘sustain’ the reading of Ovidian and other pre-modern poetry in the contemporary world is to explore it through the lens of the greatest challenge of our time, the ecological crisis. In this paper, I take hunting as a trope with which to examine the relationships between different inhabitants of the biosphere, using the stories of Actaeon and of the Calydonian boar hunt to show how Ovid’s Metamorphoses can draw the reader into engagement with clashes of needs and values, that have been at work since before the dawn of civilisation, and have reached a level of unprecedented urgency in the 21st century.https://journals.openedition.org/dictynna/3880OvidEcocriticismenvironmental sustainabilityecophobiaNatureCulturehunting |
| spellingShingle | Alison Sharrock Sustainable Ovid? Humans, Hunting, and the Environment in Ovid’s Metamorphoses Dictynna Ovid Ecocriticism environmental sustainability ecophobia NatureCulture hunting |
| title | Sustainable Ovid? Humans, Hunting, and the Environment in Ovid’s Metamorphoses |
| title_full | Sustainable Ovid? Humans, Hunting, and the Environment in Ovid’s Metamorphoses |
| title_fullStr | Sustainable Ovid? Humans, Hunting, and the Environment in Ovid’s Metamorphoses |
| title_full_unstemmed | Sustainable Ovid? Humans, Hunting, and the Environment in Ovid’s Metamorphoses |
| title_short | Sustainable Ovid? Humans, Hunting, and the Environment in Ovid’s Metamorphoses |
| title_sort | sustainable ovid humans hunting and the environment in ovid s metamorphoses |
| topic | Ovid Ecocriticism environmental sustainability ecophobia NatureCulture hunting |
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