Ovid's Homer

Authority, Repetition, Reception (UK)
Erscheinungsjahr 2017
ISBN: 978-0-19-068004-6
Verlag: OXFORD UNIV PR

Buch, Englisch, 320 Seiten, Format (B × H): 161 mm x 240 mm, Gewicht: 646 g

Ovid's Homer examines the Latin poet's engagement with the Homeric poems throughout his career. Boyd offers detailed analysis of Ovid's reading and reinterpretation of a range of Homeric episodes and characters from both epics, and demonstrates the pervasive presence of Homer in Ovid's work. The resulting intertextuality, articulated as a poetics of paternity or a poetics of desire, is particularly marked in scenes that have a history of scholiastic interest
or critical intervention; Ovid repeatedly asserts his mastery as Homeric reader and critic through his creative response to alternative readings, and in the process renews Homeric narrative for a sophisticated Roman readership. Boyd offers new insight into the dynamics of a literary tradition, illuminating a
previously underappreciated aspect of Ovidian intertextuality.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Boyd, Barbara Weiden

Boyd, Barbara

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturgeschichte und Literaturkritik
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Alte Geschichte & Archäologie Geschichte der klassischen Antike
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturwissenschaft: Lyrik und Dichter

Über Autor(innen)

Barbara Weiden Boyd is Henry Winkley Professor of Latin and Greek at Bowdoin College. She has authored and edited several books, including Brill's Companion to Ovid (2002).