Philosophy in Ovid, Ovid as philosopher / edited by Katharina Volk and Gareth D. Williams.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Volk, Katharina, 1969- editor.

Williams, Gareth D., editor.

Orville H. Bullitt Classics Fund.

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.

Philosophy in literature.

Criticism and interpretation.

Genre:

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Essays.

Literary criticism.

Physical Description:

x, 400 pages ; 25 cm

Place of Publication:

New York, NY : Oxford University Press, [2022]

Summary:

"This volume contains sixteen essays on various aspects of Ovid's engagement with philosophical trends and topics. Ovid has long been celebrated for the versatility of his poetic imagination, the diversity of his generic experimentation throughout his long career, and his intimate engagement with the Greco-Roman literary tradition that precedes him; but what of his engagement with the philosophical tradition? Ovid's close familiarity with philosophical ideas and with specific philosophical texts has long been recognized, perhaps most prominently in the Pythagorean, Platonic, Empedoclean, and Lucretian shades that color his Metamorphoses. This philosophical component, however, has often been perceived as a feature subordinate to Ovid's larger literary agenda; and because of the controlling influence conceded to that literary impulse, readings of the philosophical dimension have often focused on the perceived distortion, ironizing, or parodying of philosophical sources and ideas. This book counters this tendency by (i) considering Ovid's seriousness of engagement with, and his possible critique of, the philosophical writings that inform his works; (ii) questioning the feasibility of separating out the categories of the "philosophical" and the "literary" in the first place; (iii) exploring the ways in which Ovid may offer unusual, controversial, or provocative reactions to received philosophical ideas; and (iv) investigating the case to be made for viewing the Ovidian corpus not just as a body of writings that are often philosophically inflected, but also as texts that may themselves be read as philosophically adventurous and experimental"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Machine generated contents note: pt. I OVID'S SAPIENTIA

1. Ouidius sapiens: The Wise Man in Ovid's Work / Francesca Romana Berno

pt. II THE EROTIC CORPUS

2. Elegy, Tragedy, and the Choice of Ovid (Amores 3.1) / Laurel Fulkerson

3. Ovid's Ars amatoria and the Epicurean Hedonic Calculus / Roy Gibson

4. Criticizing Love's Critic: Epicurean parrhesia as an Instructional Mode in Ovidian Love Elegy / Erin M. Hanses

5. Ovid's imago mundi muliebris and the Makeup of the World in Ars amatoria 3.101-290 / Del A. Maticic

6. Ovid's Art of Life / Katharina Volk

pt. III METAMORPHOSES

7. Keep Up the Good Work: (Don't) Do It like Ovid (Sen. QNat. 3.27-30) / Myrto Garani

8. Venus discors: The Empedocleo-Lucretian Background of Venus and Calliope's Song in Metamorphoses 5 / Charles Ham

9. Labor and pestis in Ovid's Metamorphoses / Alison Keith

10. Cosmic Artistry in Ovid and Plato / Peter Kelly

11. Some Say the World Will End in Fire: Philosophizing the Memnonides in Ovid's Metamorphoses / Darcy A. Krasne

pt. IV THE EXILIC CORPUS

12. Ovid against the Elements: Natural Philosophy, Paradoxography, and Ethnography in the Exile Poetry / K. Sara Myers

13. Akrasia and Agency in Ovid's Tristia / Donncha O'Rourke

14. Intimations of Mortality: Ovid and the End(s) of the World / Alessandro Schiesaro

15. The End(s) of Reason in Tomis: Philosophical Traces, Erasures, and Error in Ovid's Exilic Poetry / Gareth D. Williams

pt. V AFTER OVID

16. Philosophizing and Theologizing Reincarnations of Ovid: Lucan to Alexander Pope / Philip Hardie.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 351-375) and indexes.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Orville H. Bullitt Classics Fund.

Other Format:

Online version: Philosophy in Ovid, Ovid as philosopher

ISBN:

9780197610336

0197610331

OCLC:

1264767100

Publisher Number:

99989519603