Mythical and legendary narrative in Ovid's Fasti / by Paul Murgatroyd.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Murgatroyd, Paul.

Series:

Mnemosyne, bibliotheca classica Batava. Supplementum ; 263.

Mnemosyne, bibliotheca classica Batava. Supplementum, 0169-8958 ; 263

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Didactic poetry, Latin--History and criticism.

Didactic poetry, Latin.

Narration (Rhetoric)--History--To 1500.

Narration (Rhetoric).

Mythology, Roman, in literature.

Fasts and feasts in literature.

Legends in literature.

Rhetoric, Ancient.

Rome--In literature.

Rome.

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

Ovid.

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

Physical Description:

1 online resource (320 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2005.

Language Note:

English

System Details:

data file

Summary:

This book analyses the mythical and legendary narratives in Ovid's Fasti as narrative and concentrates on the neglected literary aspects of these stories. It combines traditional tools of literary criticism with more modern techniques (taken especially from narratology and intertextuality). From a narratological viewpoint it covers important features such as aperture, closure, characterization, internal narrators, description, space, time and cinematic technique. On the intertextual level it examines the narratives' complex relationship with Virgil, Livy and Ovid's own earlier works. Recent criticism on the Fasti has addressed various elements (religious, historical, political, astronomical et cetera), but detailed narrative study has been wanting. This book fills that gap, to provide a more informed and balanced appreciation of this multifaceted poem aimed at classicists and literary critics in general (for whom all the Latin is translated).

Contents:

Preliminary Material

INTRODUCTION

OTHER VOICES

RAPE NARRATIVES

OVID AND VIRGIL

CHARACTERS

OVID AND LIVY

APERTURE

OVID AND OVID

CLOSURE

SELECT BIBLIOGRAPHY

GENERAL INDEX

INDEX OF OVIDIAN LINES DISCUSSED

SUPPLEMENTS TO MNEMOSYNE / H. Pinkster , H.S. Versnel , I.J.F. de Jong and P.H. Schrijvers.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [289]-294) and indexes.

ISBN:

1-280-86781-7

9786610867813

90-474-0722-9

1-4337-0752-7

OCLC:

191953388

Publisher Number:

10.1163/9789047407225 DOI