Ovid and Hesiod : The Metamorphosis of the Catalogue of Women
ISBN: 9781107007413 | 1107007410
Edition: 1stFormat: Hardcover
Publisher: Cambridge Univ Pr
Pub. Date: 5/31/2013
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Argues that a profound engagement with Hesiod is central to Ovid's poetic world. An important contribution to the study of Ovid and the wider poetry of the Augustan age and an excellent case study in how the reception of previous traditions can become the driving force of poetic creation.
Explores the previously neglected influence on Ovid's Metamorphoses of Hesiod, the most important archaic Greek poet after Homer.
The influence on Ovid of Hesiod, the most important archaic Greek poet... MORE
Explores the previously neglected influence on Ovid's Metamorphoses of Hesiod, the most important archaic Greek poet after Homer.
The influence on Ovid of Hesiod, the most important archaic Greek poet... MORE
| Introduction: Ovid as a Hesiodic poet | |
| Helen: the intertext of illusion | |
| Cosmos and Eros: from chaos to divine loves | |
| Coronis and Mestra: bringing the women back to the Catalogue of Women | |
| Atalanta: literal and literary races | |
| Caenis and Periclymenus: Hesiod at Achilles' party | |
| Concluding remarks | |
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