Ovid

Metamorphoses Book XIV
Erscheinungsjahr 2012
ISBN: 978-0-521-81025-8
Verlag: Cambridge University Press

Buch, Englisch, 248 Seiten, Format (B × H): 145 mm x 222 mm, Gewicht: 448 g

Reihe: Cambridge Greek and Latin Classics

In Book XIV of the Metamorphoses Ovid takes his epic for the first time into Italy and continues from book XIII his close intertextual engagement with Virgil's Aeneid. His tendentious treatment of his model subordinates Virgil's epic plot to fantastic tales of metamorphosis, including the erotic Italian tales of Circe Glaucus, and Scylla, and Picus, and Canens. Other Roman myths include Pomona and Vertumnus, as well as events from Romulus' reign. The deifications of Aeneas and Romulus anticipate the poem's closing episodes of imperial apotheosis. This 2009 commentary provides guidance to advanced undergraduate and graduate students for understanding Ovid's language, style, artistry, and allusive techniques. The introduction discusses the major structures, themes, and stylistic features of book XIV, its place within the poem as a whole, and Ovid's interpretive imitation of Virgil's Aeneid.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Ovid

Myers, K. Sara

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Klassische Literaturwissenschaft Klassische Lateinische Literatur

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction; P. Ovidi Nasonis Metamorphoseon liber qvartvs decimvs; Commentary; Abbreviations; Editions, translations, and commentaries.

Über Autor(innen)

Myers, K. Sara
K. Sara Myers is Associate Professor of Classics, University of Virginia. Her previous books are Ovid's Causes: Cosmogony and Aetiology in the Metamorphoses (1994) and Vertis in usum: Studies in honor of E. Courtney (co-edited with J. Miller and C. Damon, 2002).