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Record Nr.

UNINA9910780736703321

Autore

Battistella Chiara

Titolo

P. Ovidii Nasonis Heroidum epistula 10 [[electronic resource] ] : Ariadne Theseo : introduzione, testo e commento / / di Chiara Battistella

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Berlin ; ; New York, : De Gruyter, c2010

ISBN

1-282-88513-8

9786612885136

3-11-024086-6

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (143 p.)

Collana

Texte und Kommentare, , 0563-3087 ; ; Bd. 35

Classificazione

FX 191155

Disciplina

871/.01

Soggetti

Epistolary poetry, Latin - History and criticism

Ariadne (Greek mythology) in literature

Lingua di pubblicazione

Italiano

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Frontmatter -- Sommario -- Ringraziamenti -- Introduzione -- Nota al Testo -- Ariadne Theseo -- Commento -- Backmatter

Sommario/riassunto

Ariadne's elegiac letter to her faithless Theseus offers the epistolary mise en scène of the heroine's lamentation previously versified by Catullus in his epyllion (carmen 64). The Ovidian text looks retrospectively at its predecessor and is inevitably indebted to it. This volume explores the complex relationship between the Ovidian and the Catullan model and focuses on literary memory, allusive forms, generic boundaries and transgression. Resorting to more recent interpretative approaches and an updated bibliography, the introduction aims at disclosing the parallel construction of  text and character, placing emphasis on the sophisticated dialogic contact with the source-texts (e.g. from elegy, epic, comedy) and its literary effects on the epistle. The text also deals with some metaliterary and authorial instances to which readers of the Heroides are quite familiar.  The commentary surveys aspects of Ovidian language and style and discusses major textual problems shedding light on literary sources and strategies of dramatic irony.epistle to its literary models.