The Be(a)st of the Achaeans

Turning Tables / Overturning Tables in Ovid's Centauromachy ( Metamorphoses 12.210-535)

Bibliographic Data

ID11836783
AuthorsGottfried Mader (corresponding author)
Year2013
Volume46
Issue1
Pages87-116
Publication date2013-02-03
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueArethusa (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0004-0975 • E-ISSN: 1080-6504
PublisherJohns Hopkins University Press (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.1353/are.2013.0005
OpenAlexW2079794640
LanguageEN
Citations received2
References cited21

Ovid's Centauromachy is a sustained engagement with epic poetics: Nestor, figured as a Homeric narrator in a Homeric setting, entertains an internal audience of banqueters with a tale of another banquet that degenerated into a spectacular brawl. His representation there of epic masculinity ironically critiques the traditional epic uirtus model of his audience: it is argued that transgressive violence, loss of integrity, and the signature rhetoric of mutilation, disfigurement, and dismantling (of bodies, fixtures, landscapes, and generic boundaries) double as tropes for the super-narrator's metaliterary operation of dismantling and parodying the uirtus ideology of his epic pre-text

Aesthetics · Art · EPIC · Ideology · Linguistics · Literature · Masculinity · Poetics · Poetry · Political science · Politics · Representation (politics · Rhetoric · Sociology · Classical Antiquity Studies · Gender Studies · History · Law · Philippine History and Culture · Philosophy · Shakespeare, Adaptation, and Literary Criticism

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