La fusió iconogràfica de Tirèsies i Esculapi a "Lo somni" de Bernat Metge

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...

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Autor: Badia Pàmies, Lola|||0000-0001-9330-3120
Tipo de recurso: artículo
Fecha de publicación:2020
País:España
Institución:Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona
Repositorio:Dipòsit Digital de Documents de la UAB
Idioma:catalán
OAI Identifier:oai:ddd.uab.cat:266742
Acceso en línea:https://ddd.uab.cat/record/266742
https://dx.doi.org/urn:doi:10.7275/65cd-5r71
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palabra clave:The Dream by Bernat Metge
Tiresias
Aesculapius
Ovid's Metamorfoses
Pierre de Bersuire
De formis figurisque deorum
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Sumario: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.