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The Metamorphosis of Persephone
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Ovid and the Self-Conscious Muse
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Artikel-Nr:
9780521335065
Veröffentl:
2003
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Erscheinungsdatum:
23.07.2003
Seiten:
200
Autor:
Stephen Hinds
Gewicht:
392 g
Format:
222x145x14 mm
Sprache:
Englisch
Beschreibung:
Although Ovid is currently enjoying a new wave of popularity, most critics withhold from his poetry the close word-by-word readings that are necessary for a thorough understanding of it. Ovid twice treated the myth of Persephone, and Hinds's book is at first a historical inquiry--the most extensive yet done--into the double transformation in Metamorphosis 5 and Fasti 4 of the rape of Persephone, one of the great Graeco-Roman myths. The study continues as a critical exploration of Ovid's self-conscious delight in language and in writing manifested in these twin narratives, providing a feast for students of both Latin poetry and narratives in general.
Acknowledgements; Preface; Part I. Two Settings for a Rape: 1. Metamorphoses 5.256-64: the Heliconian fount; 2. Metamorphoses 5.385-91: the landscape of Enna; Part II. Ovid's Two Persephones: 3. The Homeric Hymn to Demeter: Fasti 4; 4. The Homeric Hymn to Demeter: Metamorphoses 5; 5. Elegy and epic: a traditional approach; 6. Elegy and epic: a new approach; Epilogue; Notes; Works cited; Index of passages discussed; Index of subjects.