Original scientific paper
Slavonian version of the 1786 epic poem on Philomela
Milovan Tatarin
orcid.org/0000-0001-7327-4158
; Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, Josip Juraj Strossmayer University of Osijek, Osijek, Croatia
Abstract
The only literary text published in the New and Old Illyric Calendar for the year 1786 was the epic poem The Story of Philomena, Daughter of King Pandian. It is a story about Philomela, Procne and Tereus as told in Book Six of Ovid’s Metamorphoses. The Calendar’s editor, however, used The History of Philomena, Daughter of King Pandion by Fra Ivan of Zadar as a source whereby he translated Fra Ivan’s Chakavian text into Ikavian Shtokavian. In the process of translation, the editor has left out many parts of the source text, summarized and changed certain parts and, occasionally, even added new verses.
Keywords
18th century Slavonian literature; almanac; Ovid; Philomela; Ivan of Zadar; Marijan Lanosović
Hrčak ID:
193019
URI
Publication date:
1.12.2017.
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