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Ibis (Ovid)

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Ibis is a poem by the Roman poet Ovid, written in elegiac couplets, which serves as a curse against an unnamed enemy. It explores themes of revenge, poetic power, and the relationship between the poet and the divine, reflecting Ovid's stylistic mastery and his engagement with the literary traditions of his time.
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Ibis is a poem by the Roman poet Ovid, written in elegiac couplets, which serves as a curse against an unnamed enemy. It explores themes of revenge, poetic power, and the relationship between the poet and the divine, reflecting Ovid's stylistic mastery and his engagement with the literary traditions of his time.

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1. How have ibis species been historically understood and represented in ancient Egyptian religion and culture, and what ecological and archaeological evidence supports this?

This research theme explores the religious significance, cultic practices, symbolic roles, and historical distribution of various ibis species, particularly the Sacred Ibis and Northern Bald Ibis, in ancient Egypt. It integrates archaeological data on ibis mummification, iconography, ritual usages, and habitats, revealing their importance in theology, ecology, and Egyptian mortuary traditions.

Key finding: The Sacred Ibis was central to ancient Egyptian religious practices as the representation of the god Thoth and was extensively mummified and buried in large numbers, reflecting both its theological importance and cultic... Read more
Key finding: Material and pictorial evidence demonstrates that the Northern Bald Ibis was associated with the concept of akh (the blessed dead) in ancient Egyptian culture. The bird’s habitat on rocky cliffs east of the Nile and its... Read more

2. What are the dispersal patterns, conservation status, and population dynamics of Glossy Ibis and Northern Bald Ibis populations in the Mediterranean basin and Europe?

This theme addresses the ecological and conservation research on ibis species’ distribution, movement ecology, population trends, and reintroduction efforts. It highlights the mechanisms of dispersal, expansion, and decline as well as the human-mediated conservation programs aiming to restore endangered ibis populations in regions where they have declined or become extinct.

Key finding: The study found that dispersal in Glossy Ibis populations in Algeria and the wider West Mediterranean basin is nonrandom and phenotype-dependent, influenced by morphological traits, sex, and age. This phenotype-linked... Read more
Key finding: Long-term citizen science and transect surveys reveal that the invasive Sacred Ibis has undergone exponential population growth and range expansion in Italy over three decades, colonizing new breeding sites across northern... Read more
Key finding: The documentation of a reintroduced Northern Bald Ibis individual in Bulgaria marks a significant westward range expansion linked to ongoing European reintroduction efforts. This observation reflects the dispersal capacity of... Read more
Key finding: Discovery of two new active Northern Bald Ibis breeding sites along the Moroccan Atlantic coastline represents an extension of the species’ breeding range within its last wild stronghold. Field surveys and habitat modeling... Read more

3. How has Ovid’s work, especially the poem 'Ibis', been interpreted regarding its structure, thematic content, and reception in late antiquity and medieval to modern contexts?

This thematic cluster investigates the literary analysis, historical reception, and iconographic interpretations of Ovid’s 'Ibis' and related works. It includes studies on poetic structure, exile themes, intertextual allusions, manuscript illumination, continuity with late antique poetry, and the cultural afterlife of Ovid’s texts in different periods and media.

Key finding: The paper identifies a deliberate structural division within Ovid’s 'Ibis', with its first half emphasizing exile-related themes such as nostos (homecoming) and poetic meter, and its second half focusing on motifs of divine... Read more
Key finding: The manuscript of Ovid’s 'Metamorphoses' known as the 'Ovidio Napoletano' provides one of the earliest illuminated versions, with iconographic programs integrating human, animal, and hybrid figures including griffins and... Read more
Key finding: Reconceiving 'Ibis' as a mythographically-inflected poem, this paper argues that its dense catalogue structure serves as a conduit for exploring identity, literary obsession, and intertextual complexity. It frames 'Ibis' as... Read more

All papers in Ibis (Ovid)

RESUMO: De acordo com Sigmund Freud, quando os escritores fazem sonhar as personagens construídas por sua imaginação, eles geralmente reverberam os mesmos princípios descritos em A interpretação dos sonhos, obra na qual o célebre... more
Questions are not infrequently asked about the meaning of the motto displayed on the College Arms. When a translation is offered--usually along the lines of 'It is forbidden to be cruel'--there is often puzzlement about why a... more
Resumo: Entre os primeiros textos conhecidos de Rimbaud, encontram-se um cadeno escolar escrito por volta de 1866, os poemas latinos e os trabalhos escolares de tradução e versão. O interesse principal desses textos está, sobretudo, no... more
This paper deals with the role that fatiim plays in Ovid and the striking way in which the poet conjugates Poetry and Philosophy by analysing Ibis ' horoscope in the homonymous poem. Resumen: Este trabajo estudia el papel que juega el... more
RESUMO: Em trabalho intitulado "Ovid, Augustus, and a nut tree", Roger Beck (1965) propôs uma leitura de Nux (“A nogueira”) como se o poema fosse uma alegoria do exílio de Ovídio. Para tal, o estudioso coligiu algumas passagens do texto e... more
This paper identifies the name of Ovid's enemy, encoded into the poem Ibis. The enemy is also associated with Mithraic references also encoded into Ibis. The enemy identified is Thrasyllus of Mendes who is here identified as as a key... more
RESUMO: Análise crítica de excertos do poema Íbis, de Ovídio, em que se constatam construções discursivas semelhantes a certas práticas mágicas imprecatórias da Antiguidade – como a deuotio e as tabellae defixionum –, e dos possíveis... more
Resumo: Neste trabalho, apresentamos nossa proposta de tradução poética para as obras Ibis, Nux e Halieutica, atribuídas ao poeta romano Publius Ouidius Naso. Tendo em vista que a crítica tradicional costuma dividir a carreira literária... more
Resumo: Entre os primeiros textos conhecidos de Rimbaud, encontram-se um cadeno escolar escrito por volta de 1866, os poemas latinos e os trabalhos escolares de tradução e versão. O interesse principal desses textos está, sobretudo, no... more
This paper examines the structure of the catalogue in Ovid’s Ibis. In the catalogue’s first half, Ovid highlights the important exilic themes of exile, nostos, and meter through repeating markers located at significant points,... more
Or may you be struck by the three-grooved weapon of hostile Jupiter, as was Hipponoüs' son [=Capaneus] and the father of Dexithea [=Demonax], as was the sister of Autonoë [=Semele], as was the one whose aunt was Maia [=Iasion], as was the... more
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