Tissol The Face of Nature

Wit, Narrative, and Cosmic Origins in Ovid's Metamorphoses
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E-Book, Englisch, Band 367, 252 Seiten

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Autoren/Hrsg.

Tissol, Garth

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Alte Geschichte & Archäologie Geschichte der klassischen Antike Griechische Geschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgments

Abbreviations

Introduction 3

Ch. 1 Glittering Trifles: Verbal Wit and Physical Transformation 11

Transgressive Language: Narcissus and Althea 11

Indecorous and Transformative Puns 22

Misunderstanding aura: Cephalus, Procris, and the Pun 26

Divinatory Wordplay: The Pun Overheard 30

Vox non intellecta: Irony and Metamorphic Wordplay (Myrrha) 36

Littera scripta manet - Or Does It? (Byblis) 42

Self-Cancelling and Self-Objectifying Witticisms 52

Wordplay, Personification, and Phantasia 61

True Imitation: Ceyx, Alcyone, and Morpheus 72

The House of Reception 85

Ch. 2 The Ass's Shadow: Narrative Disruption and Its Consequences 89

Some Exemplary Interruptions 89

Daedalus and Perdix 97

Cyclopean Violence and Narrative Disruption 105

Some Scandalous Passages 124

Ch. 3 Disruptive Traditions 131

Indecorous Possibilities: Callimachus's Hymn to Artemis and Ovidian Style 131

Elegiac Contributions: Propertius's Tarpeia and Ovid's Scylla 143

Epic Distortions: The Hecale in the Metamorphoses 153

Ch. 4 Deeper Causes: Aetiology and Style 167

Aetiological Wordplay 167

Ovid's Little Aeneid 177

Aetiology and the Nature of Flux 191

Conclusion 215

App. A G. J. Vossius on Syllepsis oratoria 217

App. B Syllepsis and Zeugma 219

App. C Further Examples of Syllepsis in Ovid 221

References 223

Index locorum 231

Index 235