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Ovid's Homer

Authority, Repetition, Reception

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

Ovid's Homer

Ovid's Homer

Authority, Repetition, Reception

Ovid's Homer

 

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 poems, and demonstrates the pervasive presence of Homer in Ovid's work.


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Beschrijving Ovid's Homer

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.


ISBN
9780190680046
Pagina's
320
Verschenen
NUR
320
Druk
1
Uitvoering
Hardback
Taal
Engels
Uitgever
OUP USA

Literaire non-fictie