THE CONCEPTUALIZATION OF LOVE THROUGH AQUATIC METAPHORS IN OVID’S REMEDIA AMORIS
THE CONCEPTUALIZATION OF LOVE THROUGH AQUATIC METAPHORS IN OVID’S REMEDIA AMORIS

Summary/Abstract: In this study we aim to analyze Ovid’s work, Remedia amoris, from the perspective of thefunctions of aquatic metaphors. The Ovidian opusculus is both an anti-Ars amatoria, a manual ofde-love, healing and emotional balancing. Aquatic metaphors are used by Ovid as a symbol of thesoul's balance, the inner force to move forward, to the struggle for a fulfilled life. Uninhabited orunfulfilled love is destructive to the one who cannot find inner peace. Passionate love is patronized byAmor, the god-child, whose arrows cause irrational, euphoric gestures and attitudes that Ovidenthusiastically greet in Amores, his first published work, but in Remedia amoris, the god invoked isPhoebus, god of light and the sun, music, poetry, medicine, patronizing the healing tools of Ovid’spoem (carmine sanati ... meo), as an inner balance source.

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