Reflections in a serpent's eye [[electronic resource] ] : Thebes in Ovid's Metamorphoses / / Micaela Janan
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| Autore: |
Janan Micaela Wakil
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| Titolo: |
Reflections in a serpent's eye [[electronic resource] ] : Thebes in Ovid's Metamorphoses / / Micaela Janan
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| Pubblicazione: | Oxford, : Oxford University Press, c2009 |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (289 p.) |
| Disciplina: | 871.01 |
| 873.01 | |
| Soggetto geografico: | Thebes (Greece) In literature |
| Rome In literature | |
| Note generali: | Description based upon print version of record. |
| Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Nota di contenuto: | Introduction: 'Happy Birthday, Romulus' -- 'In Nomine Patris': Ovid's Theban Law -- 'Th' Unconquerable Will, and Study of Revenge': Juno in Thebes -- Narcissus and Echo: The Arrows of Love's Errors -- 'Through a Glass, Darkly': Narcissus as Oedipus -- Pentheus Monsters Thebes -- Ovid and the Epic Traditon: the Post-Augustans. |
| Sommario/riassunto: | Ovid's extraordinary story of Thebes' founding and bloody unravelling spans two books of his epic poem, the Metamorphoses. His bizarre refractions of the well-ordered community engage Ovid's own Rome and the mythohistory of the Eternal City's origins, most particularly as framed in Vergil's Aeneid (Vergil's poem attained nonpareil status as the Latin epic soon after publication). The Aeneid has regularly been read as persuasively formulating how and whyRome will stride forward into history, into manifest destiny, and into `empire without end'. The Metamorphoses' strangely fantastical surface r |
| Titolo autorizzato: | Reflections in a serpent's eye |
| ISBN: | 1-282-38388-4 |
| 9786612383885 | |
| 0-19-157225-X | |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 996210088403316 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. di Salerno |
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