Ovid, death and transfiguration / edited by Joseph Farrell, John F. Miller, Damien P. Nelis, Alessandro Schiesaro.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Farrell, Joseph, 1955- editor.

Miller, John F., 1950- editor.

Nelis, Damien, editor.

Schiesaro, Alessandro, editor.

Orville H. Bullitt Classics Fund.

Series:

Mnemosyne, bibliotheca classica Batava. Supplementum ; 465.

Mnemosyne supplements, 0169-8958 ; volume 465

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

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

Ovid.

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

Latin poetry--History and criticism--Congresses.

Latin poetry.

Death in literature--Congresses.

Death in literature.

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

Themes, motives.

Genre:

Conference papers and proceedings.

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Physical Description:

xiv, 445 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 25 cm.

Place of Publication:

LEIDEN : BRILL, 2022.

Leiden ; Boston : Brill, [2023]

Summary:

"Death, the ultimate change, is an unexpected Leitmotiv of Ovid's career and reception. The eighteen contributions collected in this volume explore the theme of death and transfiguration in Ovid's own career and his posthumous reception, revealing a unity in diversity that has not been appreciated in these terms before now"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Introduction : Ovid, death and transfiguration

Part I. Death and the lover. Death, lament, and "elegiac aetiology" in Ovid's Metamorphoses / Anke Walter

Duo moriemur : death and doubling in Ovid's Metamorphoses / Florence Klein

Ovid's artistic transfiguration, Procris and Cephalus / Thea Thorsen

Suicides for love, Phyllis, Pyramus and Thisbe : critical variations on a famous motif of erotic poetry? / Jacqueline Fabre-Serris

Ovidian pathology, in love and in exile / Laurel Fulkerson

Part 2. Death and the artist. Frigid landscapes and literary frigidity in Ovid's exile poetry / A.M. Keith

Fantasies of death in Ovid's poetry of exile / Luigi Galasso

Seeing and knowing in Roman painting / Bettina Bergmann

The Niobids and the Augustan age : on some recent discoveries at Ciampino (Rome) / Alessandro Betori, Elena Calandra

Part 3. Revenants and undead. Ambobus pellite regnis : between life and death in Ovid's Metamorphoses / Alison Sharrock

Ovid's exile poetry and zombies / Stephen Hinds

C.H. Sisson's Metamorphoses and the "new age of Ovid" / Francesco Ursini

Reviving the dead : Ovid in early modern England / Emma Buckley

Part 4. Immortals and others. From chaos to chaos : Janus in Fasti 1 and the Gates of War / Francesca Romana Berno

Intertextuality, parody, and immortality of poetry : Petronius and Ovid / Giuseppe la Bua

Tod und Erklärung : Ovid on the death of Julius Caesar (Met. 15.745-851) / Katharina Volk

The books of fate : the Venus-Jupiter scene in Ovid's Metamorphoses and its epic models / Sergio Casali

Apotheoses of the poet / Philip Hardie.

Notes:

Most papers in this volume were originally given at a conference held in Rome in March 2017 to commemorate the bimillennium of Ovid's death.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Current Copyright Fee: GBP25.00 0.

Local Notes:

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

Other Format:

Online version: Ovid, death and transfiguration

ISBN:

9789004528819

9004528814

OCLC:

1363816648

Publisher Number:

99993876300