Poetic memory : allusion in the poetry of Callimachus and the Metamorphoses of Ovid / by Heather Van Tress.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Tress, Heather van, 1966-

Series:

Mnemosyne, bibliotheca classica Batava. Supplementum 0169-8958 ; 258.

Mnemosyne, bibliotheca classica Batava. Supplementum, 0169-8958 ; 258

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Ovid, 43 B.C.-17 A.D. or 18 A.D. Metamorphoses.

Ovid.

Ovid, 43 B.C.-17 A.D. or 18 A.D--Knowledge and learning--Literature.

Ovid, 43 B.C.-17 A.D. or 18 A.D.

Callimachus.

Literature.

Callimachus--Knowledge and learning--Literature.

Fables, Latin--History and criticism.

Fables, Latin.

Mythology, Classical, in literature.

Callimachus--Appreciation--Rome.

Metamorphosis in literature.

Callimachus--Technique.

Callimachus--Influence.

Allusions in literature.

Intertextuality.

Technique.

Physical Description:

viii, 218 pages ; 25 cm.

Place of Publication:

Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2004.

Contents:

Chapter 1 Callimachus, Ovid, and Allusion 1

1 Introduction: Callimachus' and Ovid's "Callimacheanism" and Allusion 1

2 Genre and Allusion 4

3 Theories of Allusion: The Approaches 7

Chapter 2 A Well-Defined Scope: Lexical Integrative and Reflective Allusions in the Prologue of Callimachus' Aetia and the Proem of Ovid's Metamorphoses 24

1 Introduction: Proems and Prologues 24

2 A Brief History of Interpretations 26

3 [characters not reproducible] 31

4 Perpetuum Carmen 39

5 [characters not reproducible] 43

6 Deductum 55

Chapter 3 Broadening the Scope: Marking the Allusion and Reiterative Integrative and Reflective Allusion 72

2 An Overview of Callimachus' Lavacrum Palladis 73

3 The Sources for Callimachus' Tiresias and Actaeon 75

4 An Overview of Ovid's Tiresias and Actaeon 80

5 The Sources for Ovid's Tiresias and Actaeon 81

6 Marking the Text 84

7 Callimachus' Reiterative Reflective Allusions 88

8 Ovid's Reiterative Integrative and Reflective Allusions 97

9 Allusive Manipulation of the Texts 105

Chapter 4 Variation of the Trope: Reflective and Integrative Allusion and Authorization within Callimachus' Hymn to Delos and Ovid's Book 6 of the Metamorphoses 111

2 An Overview of Callimachus' Hymn to Delos 113

3 Other Occurrences of Asteria and Leto 114

4 Callimachus' Hymn to Delos, the Hymnic Tradition, and the Homeric Hymn to Apollo 116

5 Callimachus' Hymn to Delos and Pindar's Poetry 126

6 Conclusion I 134

7 An Overview of Ovid's Asterie, Delos, Niobe, and Latona 136

8 Other Occurrences of Asterie, Niobe, and Latona and the Lycian Colonists 138

9 Ovidian Allusion in Met. 6.108-383: Asterie, Niobe, and Latona 141

Chapter 5 Boundaries of Genre? Allusion and Genre 160

2 Two Erysichthons 162

3 Sources for the Erysichthon Tale 164

4 Callimachus' Hymn to Demeter, Integrative Allusion, and the Dislocation of Genre 167

5 The Preparatory Allusions 169

6 Callimachus' Erysichthon and Homer 171

7 Conclusion I 178

8 Ovid's Erysichthon, Homer and Virgil 180

9 Ovid's Reflective Allusions to Callimachus 185

1 Bibliography of Editions Consulted 197

2 General Bibliography 198.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages [197]-206) and indexes.

ISBN:

900414157X

OCLC:

56367889