Brecke Ovid’s Terence

Tradition and Allusion in the Love Elegies and Beyond
1. Auflage 2023
ISBN: 978-3-11-130854-8
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: 6 - ePub Watermark

E-Book, Englisch, Band 156, 181 Seiten

Reihe: Trends in Classics - Supplementary Volumes

This book investigates the complex reception of Terence in Ovid and a number of allusions to the Terentian comedies in the love elegies and the exilic elegiac epistle 2. The genres of Latin love elegy and New Comedy are often seen as closely connected in research, and one leading view is that Latin love elegy to a large degree springs out of the comic genre. However, though both genres are strongly rooted in social practise and presents interpersonal relationships in a non-mythological, everyday setting, there are also major differences between them. Marriage, for instance, is the conventional goal for the young lover withing the comic genre, whereas the elegiac lover should avoid it. Taking into account both the similarities and the crucial differences between the comic genre and Latin love elegy, and key elegiac such as and , this book demonstrates an intricate connection between Ovid and Terence, and a complex nexus of allusions that goes straight to the core of Ovid’s elegiac authorship.

Winner of the Trends in Classics Book Prize 2023

Zielgruppe

Scholars of classical literature, literary studies scholars, stud / Klassische Altertumswissenschaftler/-innen, Literaturwissenschaft

Autoren/Hrsg.

Brecke, Iris

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Klassische Literaturwissenschaft
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Alte Geschichte & Archäologie

Über Autor(innen)

Iris Brecke, Technisch-Naturwissenschaftliche Universität Norwegens (NTNU), Trondheim, Norwegen.

Iris Brecke, Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU), Trondheim, Norway.