Moreover, it is shown that the narrative engages in an intertextual dialogue with another Ovidian generic hybrid, the Pentheus episode in the Metamorphoses (3.511-733), which constitutes an epicized tragedy being an epic narrative modeled on Euripides' Bacchae. In this context, I contend that the episode illustrates Ovid's adherence to Horace's artistic principles concerning proper satyric style as expounded in the Ars Poetica. This paper argues that the story can be read as a miniature elegiac version of a satyr play, on the grounds that it displays trademark elements of the genre.
The humorous episode of Bacchus' institution of apiculture and Silenus' failed attempt to replicate the discovery is a satyric narrative in the Fasti (3.735-762) which has received hardly any attention as such.
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