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Record Nr.

UNINA9910782775303321

Autore

Papaioannou Sophia

Titolo

Redesigning Achilles [[electronic resource] ] : "recycling" the epic cycle in the "Little Iliad" : (Ovid, Metamorphoses 12.1-13.622) / / by Sophia Papaioannou

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Berlin, : Walter De Gruyter, c2007

ISBN

1-282-19621-9

9786612196218

3-11-020430-4

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (316 p.)

Collana

Untersuchungen zur antiken Literatur und Geschichte ; ; Bd. 89

Classificazione

FX 191405

Disciplina

471.2

Soggetti

Achilles (Mythological character) - In literature

Trojan War - Literature and the war

Epic poetry, Greek - History and criticism

Epic poetry, Latin - History and criticism

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

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 -- Table of Contents -- Introduction -- Chapter One Designing 'Epic' Beginnings -- Chapter Two Epic Self-affirmation and Epic Self-consciousness: Introducing Achilles (Met. 12.64-145) -- Chapter Three Poetic Memory and Epic (De)Composition: Deconstructing Achilles -- Chapter Four Facets of Elimination: Killing Achilles -- Chapter Five The 'Judgment of the Arms': Re-Constructing Achilles -- Chapter Six Fe/Male Sacrifice: Performing the Poetics of Genre- and Gender-Crossing in the 'Fall of Troy' (Met. 13.399-575) -- Chapter Seven Memnon's Fate and Fame: Impersonating Achilles -- Backmatter

Sommario/riassunto

The book is a detailed study on the structure and the topics of Ovid's compedium of the Trojan Saga in Metamorphoses 12.1-13.622, the section also referred to as the "Little Iliad". It explores the motives and the objectives behind the selected narrative moments from the Epic Cycle that found their way into the Ovidian version of the Trojan War. By thoroughly mastering and inspiringly refashioning a vast amount of literary material, Ovid generates a systematic reconstruction of the



archetypal hero, Achilles. Thus, he projects himself as a worthy successor of Homer in the epic tradition, a mast