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Thomas Cole

Ovidius Mythistoricus

Legendary Time in the Metamorphoses

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The Metamorphoses is rarely read as history, but its immediate models were both historiographical: the Chronica of Castor of Rhodes and the De Gente Populi Romani of Marcus Terentius Varro. They determined the poem's chronological ordering of episodes and anticipated the way it views dynastic history in the mythical era of Greece and Italy as both a prelude to, and a source of precedents for, Roman imperium and Roman ruler cult. Ovid's myth-historical poem is true to the facts of fabularis historia transmitted in Varro and Castor in the same way realistic historical novels are true to those of vera historia, but it combines fact with fictiona… Mehr

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  • ISBN: 978-3-631-56959-7
  • EAN: 9783631569597
  • Produktnummer: 19703827
  • Verlag: Lang, Peter GmbH
  • Sprache: Englisch
  • Erscheinungsjahr: 2008
  • Seitenangabe: 222 S.
  • Masse: H20.8 cm x B14.6 cm x D1.7 cm 314 g
  • Reihenbandnummer: 160
  • Gewicht: 314

Über den Autor


The Author: Thomas Cole was born in Chilhowie, Virginia (USA) in 1933. His undergraduate and graduate studies were conducted at Harvard University (1950-1954 and, following a Fulbright year in Italy and military service, 1957-1960). He has held visiting professorships at Harvard (Spring, 2003) and Urbino (Spring, 1988) as well as, from 1966 to 2000, a professorship of Greek and Latin at Yale, where he is now a professor emeritus.

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