Virgilio y Ovidio en las epopeyas españolas del siglo XIX: el episodio de la Fama (A. 4.173-197; Met. 12.39-63) en los últimos vestigios del género
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.34624/agora.v0i11.10281Keywords:
Virgil, Ovid, Fame, Epic poetry, European literature, Spanish literature, Neo-Classicism, RomanticismAbstract
The concept of news, hearsay or presage goes through an allegorical process in Greek and Latin literature and ultimately becomes a divine character with concrete features and actions. In this paper, we provide a survey of the literary prevalence of Fama in European literature — giving special emphasis to Spanish epic
poetry from the 19th century —, by reading the texts and analysing their specific indebtedness both to Renaissance epic poets, such as Ariosto, Tasso or Camões, and to Classical texts: Virgil (A. 4.173-197), Ovid (Met. 12.39-63) and Statius (Theb. 3.426). We therefore hope to contribute to an original and systematic study on the role of Fama as a literary character in the last Spanish epic poems, such as La Iberíada — Ramón de Valvidares (1813) —, El moro expósito — Ángel Saavedra (1834), Pelayo — José de Espronceda (1825), or La Colombíada —Felipe Trigo y Gálvez (1885).
