Ovid and the Eclogues: verbal echoes in the Apollo and Daphne episode

Ovid is an author well-known for his ingenuity in experimenting with poetic genres and reshaping traditional tales. The Apollo and Daphne story marks a turning point in his most celebrated work, the Metamorphoses, where cosmogony gives way to tales of amatory adventures. In refashioning the story, Ovid makes a number of significant alterations and creates a dialogue with Vergil's Eclogues through numerous allusions to the Vergilian text. The purpose of this paper is to explore these textual references to Eclogues to discover how they impact Ovid's retelling of Apollo and Daphne and what this says about the nature of Ovid's arte allusiva.