Pythagoras babelis: as metamorfoses do discurso pitagórico em Ovídio, Metamorfoses, Livro XV, vv. 252-390

Abstract

The translation we offer here stems from an exercise of analysis of one of the most intriguing passages of The Metamorphoses by P. Ovidius Naso. In one stroke, it results from joint meetings and discussions mediated by Professor Rodrigo Tadeu Gonçalves (UFPR) as well as from the singularities of each translator presented here. This is a collective/singular translation of verses 252-390, Book XV, which covers three of Pythagoras’ discourses: Geological Changes, Physical Changes, and Autogenesis. We focus precisely on the emergence of differences, changes, and metamorphoses from one excerpt to another and present multiple translational orientations that, although disparate, offer a joint effort of reflection not only on the Ovidian work, its symbolic composition, the constitution of its verses, and, more specifically, of this sui generis character that is the Ovidian Pythagoras, but on the difference itself that constitutes the translation process.