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Ovid's Homer

By Boyd, Barbara Weiden

Ovid's Homer

By Boyd, Barbara Weiden

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Ovid's Homer examines the Latin poet's engagement with the Homeric poems throughout his career. Boyd offers detailed analysis of Ovid's reading and reinterpretation of a range of Homeric episodes and characters from both epics, and demonstrates the pervasive presence of Homer in Ovid's work. The resulting intertextuality, articulated as a poetics of paternity or a poetics of desire, is particularly marked in scenes that have a history of scholiastic interest or critical intervention; Ovid repeatedly asserts his mastery as Homeric reader and critic through his creative response to alternative readings, and in the process renews Homeric narrative for a sophisticated Roman readership. Boyd offers new insight into the dynamics of a literary tradition, illuminating a previously underappreciated aspect of Ovidian intertextuality.
Product details
Edition:
1
Number of Pages:
320
Release Date:
2017-12-05
Publication Date:
2017-12-05
Publisher:
OXFORD UNIV PR
Languages:
Original: English
ISBN10:
0190680040
ISBN13:
9780190680046
GPSR Manufacturer Reference:
[email protected]
Weight:
646 g
Height:
161 cm
Width:
240 cm
Thickness:
22 cm
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