Brooks Otis

Ovid as an Epic Poet

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Produktbeschreibung

Professor Otis shows that the unity of Ovid's Metamorphoses is not in the linkage but in the order or succession of episodes, motifs and ideas.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 460
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. April 2010
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 216mm x 140mm x 27mm
• Gewicht: 644g
• ISBN-13: 9780521143172
• ISBN-10: 0521143179
• Artikelnr.: 30977045

Inhaltsangabe

Prefaces
List of abbreviations
1. The problem
2. The limitations of the elegist
3. The plan of Ovid's epic
4. The divine comedy
5. The avenging gods
6. The pathos of love: I
7. The pathos of love: II
8. Troy and Rome
9. Conclusion
Appendix
Indices.