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Pastoral appropriation and assimilation in Ovid’s Apollo and Daphne episode

This paper looks at the tale of Apollo and Daphne in Ovid’s Metamorphoses in light of the similarities it shares not with epic and elegy (well-recognised in the scholarship), but with pastoral, particularly the pastoral poetry of Vergil’s Eclogues 10, itself a precursor in the kind of bold mixing of genres favoured by Ovid. Through juxtaposition of the broad narrative scenario and examination of several key passages I suggest that Apollo can usefully be seen as a doublet of the poet Gallus as he appears in Eclogue 10. Through this appropriation, Ovid both undercuts Apollo’s status as god of poetry and replicates, with a difference, Vergil’s assimilation of Gallus into his own poetry.