Midas, the Golden Age trope, and Hellenistic Kingship in Ovid’s Metamorphoses

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Autor(a) principal: Hadjittofi, Fotini
Data de Publicação: 2017
Tipo de documento: Artigo
Idioma: eng
Título da fonte: Repositório Científico de Acesso Aberto de Portugal (Repositórios Cientìficos)
Texto Completo: http://hdl.handle.net/10451/29720
Resumo: This article proposes a sustained politicized reading of the myth of Midas in Ovid’s Metamorphoses. It argues that Midas stands, first, as the embodiment of failed, Hellenistic kingship, with its ostentatious display of wealth and heralding of a new Golden Age, and, second, as a warning against the infectious “love of gold”, to which Roman politicians are far from immune. While the capture of Silenus and the golden touch episode link Midas with the tropes of Hellenistic kingship, his involvement in the competition between Pan and Apollo raises questions about the tropes of Roman imperial power itself.
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spelling Midas, the Golden Age trope, and Hellenistic Kingship in Ovid’s MetamorphosesOvid, MetamorphosesHellenistic kingshipThis article proposes a sustained politicized reading of the myth of Midas in Ovid’s Metamorphoses. It argues that Midas stands, first, as the embodiment of failed, Hellenistic kingship, with its ostentatious display of wealth and heralding of a new Golden Age, and, second, as a warning against the infectious “love of gold”, to which Roman politicians are far from immune. While the capture of Silenus and the golden touch episode link Midas with the tropes of Hellenistic kingship, his involvement in the competition between Pan and Apollo raises questions about the tropes of Roman imperial power itself.Repositório da Universidade de LisboaHadjittofi, Fotini2017-11-14T11:39:15Z2018-062018-06-01T00:00:00Zinfo:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersioninfo:eu-repo/semantics/articleapplication/pdfhttp://hdl.handle.net/10451/29720engHadjittofi, F. ‘Midas, the Golden Age trope, and Hellenistic Kingship in Ovid’s Metamorphoses’, , American Journal of Philology 139 (2018) 277-309.info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccessreponame:Repositório Científico de Acesso Aberto de Portugal (Repositórios Cientìficos)instname:Agência para a Sociedade do Conhecimento (UMIC) - FCT - Sociedade da Informaçãoinstacron:RCAAP2023-11-08T16:21:55Zoai:repositorio.ul.pt:10451/29720Portal AgregadorONGhttps://www.rcaap.pt/oai/openaireopendoar:71602024-03-19T21:45:30.892281Repositório Científico de Acesso Aberto de Portugal (Repositórios Cientìficos) - Agência para a Sociedade do Conhecimento (UMIC) - FCT - Sociedade da Informaçãofalse
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title Midas, the Golden Age trope, and Hellenistic Kingship in Ovid’s Metamorphoses
spellingShingle Midas, the Golden Age trope, and Hellenistic Kingship in Ovid’s Metamorphoses
Hadjittofi, Fotini
Ovid, Metamorphoses
Hellenistic kingship
title_short Midas, the Golden Age trope, and Hellenistic Kingship in Ovid’s Metamorphoses
title_full Midas, the Golden Age trope, and Hellenistic Kingship in Ovid’s Metamorphoses
title_fullStr Midas, the Golden Age trope, and Hellenistic Kingship in Ovid’s Metamorphoses
title_full_unstemmed Midas, the Golden Age trope, and Hellenistic Kingship in Ovid’s Metamorphoses
title_sort Midas, the Golden Age trope, and Hellenistic Kingship in Ovid’s Metamorphoses
author Hadjittofi, Fotini
author_facet Hadjittofi, Fotini
author_role author
dc.contributor.none.fl_str_mv Repositório da Universidade de Lisboa
dc.contributor.author.fl_str_mv Hadjittofi, Fotini
dc.subject.por.fl_str_mv Ovid, Metamorphoses
Hellenistic kingship
topic Ovid, Metamorphoses
Hellenistic kingship
description This article proposes a sustained politicized reading of the myth of Midas in Ovid’s Metamorphoses. It argues that Midas stands, first, as the embodiment of failed, Hellenistic kingship, with its ostentatious display of wealth and heralding of a new Golden Age, and, second, as a warning against the infectious “love of gold”, to which Roman politicians are far from immune. While the capture of Silenus and the golden touch episode link Midas with the tropes of Hellenistic kingship, his involvement in the competition between Pan and Apollo raises questions about the tropes of Roman imperial power itself.
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