Ovid, Death and Transfiguration

Erscheinungsjahr 2023
ISBN: 978-90-04-52881-9
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 465, 446 Seiten, Format (B × H): 155 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 729 g

Reihe: Mnemosyne, Supplements

The open access publication of this book has been published with the support of the Swiss National Science Foundation.

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Weitere Mitwirkende

Farrell, Joseph

Miller, John F.

Nelis, Damien

Schiesaro, Alessandro

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literarische Stoffe, Motive und Themen
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Klassische Literaturwissenschaft Klassische Lateinische Literatur
• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaften Interdisziplinär Thanatologie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgements

List of Figures

Introduction: Ovid, Death and Transfiguration

Part 1 Death and the Lover

1 Death, Lament, and “Elegiac Aetiology” in Ovid’s Metamorphoses

Anke Walter

2 Duo moriemur: Death and Doubling in Ovid’s Metamorphoses

Florence Klein

3 Ovid’s Artistic Transfiguration, Procris and Cephalus

Thea Thorsen

4 Suicides for Love, Phyllis, Dido, Pyramus and Thisbe: Critical Variations on a Famous Motif of Erotic Poetry?

Jacqueline Fabre-Serris

5 Ovidian Pathology, in Love and in Exile

Laurel Fulkerson

Part 2 Death and the Artist

6 Frigid Landscapes and Literary Frigidity in Ovid’s Exile Poetry

A.M. Keith

7 Fantasies of Death in Ovid’s Poetry of Exile

Luigi Galasso

8 Seeing and Knowing in Roman Painting

Bettina Bergmann

9 The Niobids and the Augustan Age: On Some Recent Discoveries at Ciampino (Rome)

Alessandro Betori and Elena Calandra

Part 3 Revenants and Undead

10 Ambobus pellite regnis: Between Life and Death in Ovid’s Metamorphoses

Alison Sharrock

11 Ovid’s Exile Poetry and Zombies

Stephen Hinds

12 C.H. Sisson’s Metamorphoses and the “New Age of Ovid”

Francesco Ursini

13 Reviving the Dead: Ovid in Early Modern England

Emma Buckley

Part 4 Immortals and Others

14 From Chaos to Chaos: Janus in Fasti 1 and the Gates of War

Francesca Romana Berno

15 Intertextuality, Parody, and Immortality of Poetry: Petronius and Ovid

Giuseppe La Bua

16 Tod und Erklärung: Ovid on the Death of Julius Caesar (Met. 15.745–851)

Katharina Volk

17 The Books of Fate: The Venus-Jupiter Scene in Ovid’s Metamorphoses 15 and Its Epic Models

Sergio Casali

18 Apotheoses of the Poet

Philip Hardie

Index

Über Autor(innen)

Joseph Farrell is Professor of Classical Studies at the University of Pennsylvania, where he has taught since 1984. He has published a number of articles and monographs on classical Latin literature, including most recently Juno's Aeneid: A Battle for Heroic Identity (Princeton 2021).

John F. Miller is Arthur F. and Marian W. Stocker Professor of Classics at the University of Virginia. He has published widely in the area of Latin literature, including Apollo, Augustus, and the Poets (Cambridge 2009), and has edited several collaborative volumes, most recently (with Jenny Strauss Clay), Tracking Hermes, Pursuing Mercury (Oxford 2019).

Damien P. Nelis is Professor of Latin at the University of Geneva. He is currently preparing a digital edition of the Achilleid of Statius and is writing a book on Vergil’s Georgics.

Alessandro Schiesaro is Professor of Latin Literature at the Scuola Normale Superiore, Pisa. He has published work on several Roman authors, including Lucretius, Virgil, Horace, Ovid and Seneca.

Contributors are: Bettina Bergmann, Francesca Romana Berno, Alessandro Betori, Emma Buckley, Elena Calandra, Sergio Casali, Jacqueline Fabre-Serris, Laurel Fulkerson, Luigi Galasso, Philip Hardie, Stephen Hinds, A.M. Keith, Florence Klein, Giuseppe La Bua, Alison Sharrock, Thea Selliaas Thorsen, Francesco Ursini, Katharina Volk, Anke Walter.