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Ovid / Carole E. Newlands.
Van Pelt Library PA6537.A5 N49 2015
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Newlands, Carole Elizabeth, author.
- Series:
- Understanding classics
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Ovid, 43 B.C.-17 A.D. or 18 A.D--Criticism and interpretation.
- Ovid.
- Ovid, 43 B.C.-17 A.D. or 18 A.D.
- Criticism and interpretation.
- Genre:
- Criticism, interpretation, etc.
- Physical Description:
- xi,192 pages ; 22 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- London : I.B. Tauris, 2015.
- Summary:
- Virgil, Horace and Ovid are often cited as the three great canonical poets of classical Roman literature. And of the three, arguably it is Ovid (43 BCE-17/18 CE) who has the most enduring legacy. Carole Newlands introduces her subject as an ancient author with a vital place in the modern cultural canon, and also as the inspiration behind figures as Chaucer, Titian, Dryden and Ted Hughes. She views Ovid as a Latin writer who is uniquely suitable for times of change: he appeals to post-modern sensibilities because of his interest in psychology, his fascination with cultural hybridity and his challenge to the conventional divide between animal and human. This book explores the connection between the historical poet and the works he produced: elegies, the Metamorphoses and the Fasti. It shows that unlike Virgil - who wrote early in Augustus' reign, anticipating a Golden Age of peace and prosperity - Ovid was a product of the late Augustan age: one of hardening autocracy and the greater influence of Tiberius behind the scenes. His elegies and erotic myths must therefore be understood as the result of complex, shifting political circumstances.
- Contents:
- I Ovid in the Third Millennium and the First 1
- II Writing for an Age of Gold: The Love Elegist 23
- III Women as Authors: Letter Writing and the Heroides 47
- IV Writing for an Age of Iron: The Metamorphoses 71
- V The Fasti: Poem of Roman Time 99
- VI Exile and After 123
- VII The Reception of Ovid 147.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 183-186) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9781848859296
- 1848859295
- 1848859309
- 9781848859302
- OCLC:
- 896855546
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