Sfera îndrumărilor morale din prelucrările ovidiene ale lui Vasile Aaron
The Range of Moral Teachings in Vasile Aaron’s Adaptations after Ovid

Summary/Abstract: In the annuals of the Pedagogic-Theological Institute in Sibiu for the years 1899 and 1900, professor Daniil Popovici Barcianu published several previously unknown rhymed productions, which he identified as juvenilia of the Sibiu-based lawyer and writer Vasile Aaron (1780-1821). These writings had been found among the manuscripts left behind by professor Barcianu’s father, Sava Popovici Barcianu, scholar, priest in Răşinari and counsellor of the Orthodox Consistorium in Sibiu. The copy pertaining to the clergyman in Răşinari included eight pieces of text, six of which were mythological writings, adaptations after Ovid’s Metamorphoses. Barcianu only published five of these legends, and even the published ones remained available to a very limited readership. Aaron’s arrangements after Ovid prove once more the attachment shown by the scholars of that time for the „ancestral” Latin literature and are also a perfect example of the Enlightenment concept that states the intellectuals’ plight to work towards the moral edification of the common people. Standing evidence for this are the teachings accompanying each of the legends, where the author feels compelled to give his readership advice and guidance for life.

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