Jacobson Ovid's Heroidos

1. Auflage 2015
ISBN: 978-1-4008-7239-8
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: 1 - PDF Watermark

E-Book, Englisch, 454 Seiten

Reihe: Princeton Legacy Library

A series of letters purportedly written by Penelope, Dido, Medea, and other heroines to their lovers, the Heroides represents Ovid's initial attempt to revitalize myth as a subject for literature. In this book, Howard Jacobson examines the first fifteen elegaic letters of the Heroides.

In his critical evaluation, Professor Jacobson takes into consideration the twofold nature of the work: its existence as a single entity with uniform poetic structure and coherent goals, and its existence as a collection of fifteen individual poems. Thus, fifteen chapters are devoted to a thorough analysis and interpretation of the particular poems, while six additional chapters are concerned with problems that pertain to the work as a whole, such as the nature of the genre, the role of rhetoric, theme, and variation, and the originality of Ovid.

Special attention is given to the application of modern psychological criticism to the delineations of the pathological psyche in the letters. In an additional chapter on the chronology of Ovid's early amatory poetry, the author challenges and revises the traditional dating of the Heroides.

Originally published in 1974.

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Autoren/Hrsg.

Jacobson, Howard

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Klassische Literaturwissenschaft

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Frontmatter, pg. i
Contents, pg. vii
Preface, pg. ix
Acknowledgements, pg. xi
Abbreviations and Short Titles, pg. xiii
Introduction, pg. 1
I. Heroides 3: Briseis, pg. 12
II. Heroides 8: Hermione, pg. 43
III. Heroides 2: Phyllis, pg. 58
IV. Heroides 7: Dido, pg. 76
V. Heroides 6: Hypsipyle, pg. 94
VI. Heroides 12: Medea, pg. 109
VII. Heroides 14: Hypermestra, pg. 124
VIII. Heroides 4: Phaedra, pg. 142
IX. Heroides 11: Canace, pg. 159
X. Heroides 5: Oenone, pg. 176
XI. Heroides 13: Laodamia, pg. 195
XII. Heroides 10: Ariadne, pg. 213
XIII. Heroides 9: Deianira, pg. 228
XIV. Heroides 1: Penelope, pg. 243
XV. Heroides 15: Sappho, pg. 277
XVI. The Date of the Heroides, pg. 300
XVII. The Nature of the Genre: Ovid's Originality, pg. 319
XVIII. The Role of Perspective, pg. 349
XIX. Dramatic Structure, pg. 363
XX. The Heroides: Myth and Psychology, pg. 371
XXI. Variatio, pg. 381
Appendix, pg. 407
Select Bibliography, pg. 410
Index Locorum, pg. 419
Index Nominum et Rerum, pg. 430