TY  - CHAP
A1  - Harst, Joachim
T1  - Schwören, schriftlich : Liebe und Recht bei Ovid
T2  - Philologie im Netz : PhiN. Beiheft, 12.2017
N2  - The final letters of Ovid's collection "Heroides" tell the remarkable story of a written oath. Acontius has fallen in love with the beautiful Cydippe. Since she is already promised to another man, Acontius uses a deceitful stratagem: he sends her an apple on which he has inscribed "cunning words", namely, an oath of engagement. As Cydippe reads the inscription aloud mechanically, she finds herself involuntarily bound to marry Acontius, and finally gives in to his insistent wooing. If read against the backdrop of a media theory of law, Ovid's story raises a couple of important questions concerning the relationship between orality and literacy at the beginning of Western legal history. While the oath undoubtedly is a fundamental element of early law, it is usually understood as part of an "archaic" oral law that is "rationalized" only afterwards by being transferred to writing. Ovid, however, presents the idea of an originally written oath and thus invites the reader to reconsider the relation between speech and writing: To what extent may writing exert a binding force that is distinct from the representation of speech?
KW  - Ovidius Naso, Publius
KW  - Acontius Cydippae
KW  - Eid
KW  - Mündlichkeit
KW  - Schriftlichkeit
KW  - Liebe <Motiv>
KW  - Recht
Y1  - 2017
UR  - http://publikationen.ub.uni-frankfurt.de/frontdoor/index/index/docId/59226
UR  - https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:hebis:30:3-592267
UR  - http://web.fu-berlin.de/phin/beiheft12/b12t10.pdf
SN  - 1436-7211
VL  - 12
SP  - 159
EP  - 181
PB  - Freie Universität Berlin, Institut für Romanische Philologie
CY  - Berlin
ER  -