Ovid's Homer

Authority, Repetition, Reception

Inbunden, Engelska, 2018

Av Barbara Boyd, Bowdoin College) Boyd, Barbara (Henry Winkley Professor of Latin and Greek, Henry Winkley Professor of Latin and Greek, Barbara Weiden Boyd

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Ovid's Homer examines the Latin poet's engagement with the Homeric poems throughout his career. Boyd offers detailed analysis of Ovid's reading and reinterpretation of a range of Homeric episodes and characters from both epics, and demonstrates the pervasive presence of Homer in Ovid's work. The resulting intertextuality, articulated as a poetics of paternity or a poetics of desire, is particularly marked in scenes that have a history of scholiastic interest or critical intervention; Ovid repeatedly asserts his mastery as Homeric reader and critic through his creative response to alternative readings, and in the process renews Homeric narrative for a sophisticated Roman readership. Boyd offers new insight into the dynamics of a literary tradition, illuminating a previously underappreciated aspect of Ovidian intertextuality.

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Utgivningsdatum2018-01-11
Mått163 x 234 x 33 mm
Vikt658 g
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
Antal sidor320
FörlagOUP USA
ISBN9780190680046

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Ovid's Homer: Authority, Repetition, and ReceptionTABLE OF CONTENTSPREFACE xACKNOWLEDGEMENTS xTEXTS AND ABBREVIATIONS xINTRODUCTION 1Chapter 1 - Starting From Homer 15Chapter 2 - Seeing Double: Ovid's Diomedes 58Chapter 3 - Fathers And Sons, Part One: A Success(ion) Story 104Chapter 4 - Fathers And Sons, Part Two: Paternity As Paradigm 150Chapter 5 - Paternity Tests 207Chapter 6 - Poetic Daughters 234Chapter 7 - Homer In Love 254Chapter 8 - Homeric Desires 300CHAPTER 9 - Homer's Gods in Rome 334bibliography 368INDEX LOCORUM xGENERAL INDEX x

This valuable new book explores Ovid's career-long engagement with Homer's poetry in a series of learned and sensitive close readings from the whole range of Ovid's poetic output ... This review cannot do justice to the many insightful interpretive readings of the individual passages which form the chapters of this book ... The accessibility of the book is greatly assisted by translations of all Latin and Greek passages and summaries of the relevant Homeric episodes.