On the reception of Ovid's Halieutica in the imperial age. A case of reuse and re-adaptation
Abstract
Through the concept of literary genre the ancients defined a specific textual class, whose rules had been established by an inventor; then, when his successors legitimased and adapted them, those rules became a literary tradition. However, themes could cross genre boundaries and be transmitted between technically very different works, such as in the didactic genre, through a kind of trans-coding, so to speak. Readers and scholars were therefore involved in a de-coding operation; authors, for their part, carried out a codification as inventores of the genre or a re-codification, especially if we think of the reception in the Roman imperial age. This article focuses on the reception of Ovid’s Halieutica, a short poem of 135 lines attributed to him. It became source for Pliny the Elder in HN. 32,11-13 and 32,152-153, where he speaks of fish mirabilia, and also for Ausonius, who evokes this poem in his Mosella, especially in the section called catalogue of fishes by scholars. In these two cases we can speak not only of reception or codification, but even of literary re-use and adaptation. The troubled fortune of Ovid’s Halieutica in the imperial age can be considered an interesting case study of such strategies.
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