Ovid's Homer: Authority, Repetition, Reception (UK)

by Barbara Boyd

Ovid's Homer examines the Latin poet's engagement with the Homeric poems throughout his career. Boyd offers detailed analysis of Ovid's reading and reinterpretation of a range of Homeric episodes and characters from both epics, and demonstrates 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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0190680040
• ISBN13: 9780190680046
• Release Date: December 2017
• Publisher: Oxford Univ PR
• Length: 320 Pages
• Weight: 1.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 6.4" x 9.2"