Barbara Weiden Boyd

Ovid's Homer

Authority, Repetition, Reception

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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 narrati… Mehr

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Produktdetails

ISBN: 978-0-19-068006-0
EAN: 9780190680060
Produktnummer: 25735730
Verlag: Oxford University Press
Sprache: Englisch
Erscheinungsjahr: 2017
Seitenangabe: 286 S.
Plattform: EPUB
Masse: 2'160 KB
Abbildungen: 1 b&w halftone

Über den Autor

Barbara Weiden Boyd is Henry Winkley Professor of Latin and Greek at Bowdoin College. She is the author of Ovid's Literary Loves: Influence and Innovation in the Amores, and editor of Brill's Companion to Ovid and Approaches to Teaching the Works of Ovid and the Ovidian Tradition.