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Record Nr.

UNINA9910799290403321

Autore

Farrell Joseph

Titolo

Ovid, Death and Transfiguration

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Boston : , : BRILL, , 2023

©2023

ISBN

90-04-52887-3

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (461 pages)

Collana

Mnemosyne, Supplements Series ; ; v.465

Altri autori (Persone)

MillerJohn F

NelisDamien

SchiesaroAlessandro

Disciplina

871/.01

Soggetti

Latin poetry - History and criticism

Death in literature

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di contenuto

Introduction : Ovid, death and transfiguration -- ; Part I. Death and the lover. Death, lament, and "elegiac aetiology" in Ovid's Metamorphoses / Anke Walter -- Duo moriemur : death and doubling in Ovid's Metamorphoses / Florence Klein -- Ovid's artistic transfiguration, Procris and Cephalus / Thea Thorsen -- Suicides for love, Phyllis, Pyramus and Thisbe : critical variations on a famous motif of erotic poetry? / Jacqueline Fabre-Serris -- Ovidian pathology, in love and in exile / Laurel Fulkerson -- ; Part 2. Death and the artist. Frigid landscapes and literary frigidity in Ovid's exile poetry / A.M. Keith -- Fantasies of death in Ovid's poetry of exile / Luigi Galasso -- Seeing and knowing in Roman painting / Bettina Bergmann -- The Niobids and the Augustan age : on some recent discoveries at Ciampino (Rome) / Alessandro Betori, Elena Calandra -- ; Part 3. Revenants and undead. Ambobus pellite regnis : between life and death in Ovid's Metamorphoses / Alison Sharrock -- Ovid's exile poetry and zombies / Stephen Hinds -- C.H. Sisson's Metamorphoses and the "new age of Ovid" / Francesco Ursini -- Reviving the dead : Ovid in early modern England / Emma Buckley -- ; Part 4. Immortals and others. From chaos to chaos : Janus in Fasti 1 and the Gates of War / Francesca Romana Berno -- Intertextuality, parody, and immortality of poetry : Petronius



and Ovid / Giuseppe la Bua -- Tod und Erklärung : Ovid on the death of Julius Caesar (Met. 15.745-851) / Katharina Volk -- The books of fate : the Venus-Jupiter scene in Ovid's Metamorphoses and its epic models / Sergio Casali -- Apotheoses of the poet / Philip Hardie.

Sommario/riassunto

"Death, the ultimate change, is an unexpected Leitmotiv of Ovid's career and reception. The eighteen contributions collected in this volume explore the theme of death and transfiguration in Ovid's own career and his posthumous reception, revealing a unity in diversity that has not been appreciated in these terms before now"--