Ovid's Metamorphoses

Erscheinungsjahr 2004
ISBN: 978-0-19-515409-2
Verlag: Oxford University Press

Buch, Englisch, 192 Seiten, Print PDF, Format (B × H): 145 mm x 222 mm, Gewicht: 380 g

Ovid's Metamorphoses have been seen to mark the culmination of the classical epic tradition, and a revolutionary transferral of narrative interest from warfare to love and fantasy. This introduction considers how Ovid defined and shaped his narrative, its cultural context, and its vivid depictions of the cruelty of jealous gods, the pathos of human love, and the imaginative fantasy of flight, monsters, magic, and illusion. Elaine Fantham provides a stimulating introduction to this marvelous and complex poem, and to the traditions it drew on and inspired.

Zielgruppe

Academics and students researching in Classical Studies, Classical Literature, Shakespeare's source material

Autoren/Hrsg.

Fantham, Elaine

Coleman, Kathleen

Rutherford, Richard

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Klassische Literaturwissenschaft Klassische Lateinische Literatur

Inhaltsverzeichnis

- 1: Transforming Bodies, Transforming Epic

- 2: Creation, Flood, and Fire

- 3: Cadmus and the Tragic dynasty of Thebes

- 4: Human Artistry and Divine Jealousy

- 5: The Lives of Women

- 6: Aspects of Love

- 7: Heroes- Old Style and New

- 8: Fantasy, the Fabulous and the Miraculous Metamorphoses of Nature

- 9: Genre and Narrative: Ovid's Polymorphous Poem

- 10: After Ovid

- Appendix 1: Ovid's Poetical works

- Appendix 2: Outline of the Metapmorphoses

Über Autor(innen)

ELAINE FANTHAM, Giger Professor of Latin Emerita, Princeton University