Barbara Weiden Boyd

Ovid's Homer

Authority, Repetition, Reception

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Produktbeschreibung

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 poems, and demonstrates the pervasive presence of Homer in Ovid's work.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press, USA
• UK edition
• Seitenzahl: 320
• Erscheinungstermin: 5. Dezember 2017
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 163mm x 33mm
• Gewicht: 658g
• ISBN-13: 9780190680046
• ISBN-10: 0190680040
• Artikelnr.: 49135564

Autorenporträt

Barbara Weiden Boyd is Henry Winkley Professor of Latin and Greek at Bowdoin College. She has authored and edited several books, including Brill's Companion to Ovid (2002).

Inhaltsangabe

Ovid's Homer: Authority, Repetition, and Reception
TABLE OF CONTENTS
PREFACE x
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS x
TEXTS AND ABBREVIATIONS x
INTRODUCTION 1
Chapter 1 - Starting From Homer 15
Chapter 2 - Seeing Double: Ovid's Diomedes 58
Chapter 3 - Fathers And Sons, Part One: A Success(ion) Story 104
Chapter 4 - Fathers And Sons, Part Two: Paternity As Paradigm 150
Chapter 5 - Paternity Tests 207
Chapter 6 - Poetic Daughters 234
Chapter 7 - Homer In Love 254
Chapter 8 - Homeric Desires 300
CHAPTER 9 - Homer's Gods in Rome 334
bibliography 368
INDEX LOCORUM x
GENERAL INDEX x