Ovid's Homer : authority, repetition, and reception

The Resource Ovid's Homer : authority, repetition, and reception

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Ovid's Homer : authority, repetition, and reception

Title remainder

authority, repetition, and reception

Statement of responsibility

Barbara Weiden Boyd

Language

eng

Summary

Repitition in literature is often a matter of fierce debate: What separates creative exchange from plagiarism? In Ovid's Homer, Barbara Weiden Boyd examines the Latin poet's nuanced engagement with the Homeric poems throughout his career. Boyd offers a detailed analysis of Ovid's reading and reinterpretation of a range of Homeric episodes and characters to both demonstrate and delineate the pervasive presence of HOmer in Ovid's work. The resulting intertextuality, articulated as a poetics of paternity or a poetics of desire, is particularly marked in scenes that have a history of scholiastic interest or critical intervention; Ovid repeatedly asserts his mastery as Homeric reader and critic through his creative respose to alternative readings, and in the process renews Homeric narrative for a sophisticated Roman readership. In this book, Boyd offers fresh insights into the dynamics of a literary tradition, illuminating a previously underappreciated aspect of Ovidian intertextuality

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ICU/DLC

Dewey number

871/.01

Index

index present

LC call number

PA6537

LC item number

.B64 2017

Literary form

non fiction

Nature of contents

bibliography

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