La fusió iconogràfica de Tirèsies i Esculapi a Lo somni de Bernat Metge // The Iconographical Fusion of Tiresias and Asclepius is Bernat Metge's Lo somni
DOI
https://doi.org/10.7275/65cd-5r71
Keywords
The Dream by Bernat Metge; Tiresias; Aesculapius; Ovid’s Metamorfoses; Pierre de Bersuire, De formis figurisque deorum
Abstract
In Bernat Metge’s The Dream, the mythological seer Tiresias, shaped from different classical and medieval sources, advises the character of Bernat against his excessive commitment to women acting as a soul healer and backed by his personal experience. This note proposes an iconographic clue to the image of Metge’s new Tiresias in the figura of Aesculapius, the ancient god of medicine, as described in Ovid’s Metamorfoses.
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