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

Inhaltsverzeichnis

- Ovid's Homer: Authority, Repetition, and Reception

- TABLE OF CONTENTS

- PREFACE x

- ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS x

- TEXTS AND ABBREVIATIONS x

- INTRODUCTION 1

- Chapter 1 - Starting From Homer 15

- Chapter 2 - Seeing Double: Ovid's Diomedes 58

- Chapter 3 - Fathers And Sons, Part One: A Success(ion) Story 104

- Chapter 4 - Fathers And Sons, Part Two: Paternity As Paradigm 150

- Chapter 5 - Paternity Tests 207

- Chapter 6 - Poetic Daughters 234

- Chapter 7 - Homer In Love 254

- Chapter 8 - Homeric Desires 300

- CHAPTER 9 - Homer's Gods in Rome 334

- bibliography 368

- INDEX LOCORUM x

- GENERAL INDEX x

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).