The Metamorphosis of Persephone: Ovid and the Self-Conscious Muse

by Stephen Hinds

Book Overview

Although Ovid is currently enjoying a new wave of popularity, most critics withhold from his poetry the close word-by-word readings that are necessary for a thorough understanding of it. Ovid twice treated the myth of Persephone, and Hinds's book is at first a historical inquiry--the most extensive yet done--into the double transformation in Metamorphosis 5 and Fasti 4 of the rape of Persephone, one of the great Graeco-Roman myths. The study continues as a critical exploration of Ovid's self-conscious delight in language and in writing manifested in these twin narratives, providing a feast for students of both Latin poetry and narratives in general.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0521036232
• ISBN13: 9780521036238
• Release Date: May 2007
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 200 Pages
• Weight: 0.57 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.5" x 8.5"