Epic succession and dissension : Ovid, Metamorphoses 13.623-14.582, and the reinvention of the Aeneid / by Sophia Papaioannou.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Papaioannou, Sophia.

Series:

Untersuchungen zur antiken Literatur und Geschichte ; Bd. 73

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Latin literature.

Ovid, 43 B.C.-17 or 18 A.D. Metamorphoses--Liber 13-14.

Ovid.

Ovid, 43 B.C.-17 or 18 A.D. Metamorphoses--Liber 13-14--Sources.

Virgil. Aeneis.

Virgil.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (232 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Other Title:

Ovid, Metamorphoses 13.623-14.582, and the reinvention of the Aeneid

Place of Publication:

Berlin ; New York : De Gruyter, c2005.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Hiermit liegt die erste ausführliche, neuzeitliche und kritische Analyse von Ovids Metamorphosen 13.623-14.582 vor. Ovid setzte hier neue Maßstäbe in Bezug auf epische Poesie und die Art ihrer Rezeption. Zunächst wird die methodologische Komplexität von Ovids 'Umarmungsstrategie' vorgestellt, daran anschließend diskutiert Papaioannou in einer genauen Untersuchung der 'kleinen Aeneis' das dichte Netz von Anspielungen auf das Original, legt die Struktur und die Themen jeder Episode aus und zeigt prominente Motive in den Metamorphosen auf. Nicht zuletzt werden die poetischen Techniken der Metamorphosen erkundet, wobei Papaioannou argumentiert, Ovid reproduziere den Geist und die Grundzüge des Originals durch seine selektive Einbettung der Aeneis auf sehr durchdachte, idiosynkratische Weise.

This study constitutes the first modern book-length, in-depth critical analysis of Ovid, Metamorphoses 13.623-14.582. In this unit Ovid, by challenging openly the artistry of his great predecessor Vergil, redraws the parameters associated with the definition and appreciation of epic poetry. The book first introduces the methodological complexity of the Ovidian embrace strategy, and, subsequently, it reads the 'little Aeneid' closely, discussing the network of allusions to its prototype. It assesses the structure and thematics of each episode in the cluster, and traces the recurrence of prominent motifs throughout the Metamorphoses. Not least, it explores poetics, arguing that Ovid's selective incorporation of the Aeneid reproduces the spirit and fundamental ideas of the model in an idiosyncratic sophisticated manner.

Contents:

Front matter

Acknowledgments

Contents

Abbreviations

Introduction

Summary of the 'little Aeneid' (Ovid, Met. 13.623-14.582)

Chapter One Aeneads and Aniads: Offering Politics and the Politics of Offering, or Narrative Discourse on Anius' Crater (Met. 13.681-701)

Chapter Two Immortality and Mutability: The Sibyl and the Power of Poetic Memory

Chapter Three Centralizing the Marginal: The Anamorphosis of Achaemenides

Chapter Four Marginalizing the Central: Macareus' Anamnesis

Chapter Five Experimentation on a Narrative Chain I: Poetology, Epic Definition, and the Near-Swans of Diomedes

Chapter Six Experimentation on a Narrative Chain II: Vergilian Ships and Ovidian Nymphs, and a Play of Literary Identities

Chapter Seven Epic Conclusion and Epic Closure: The Fall of Ardea

Bibliography

Indexes

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references (p. [199]-207) and indexes.

ISBN:

9783110899016

3110899019

OCLC:

811407696