Ovid's Homer
Authority, Repetition, Reception
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 9326014 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Barbara Weiden Boyd (corresponding author), Barbara Boyd |
| Year | 2017 |
| Pages | 312 |
| Publication date | 2017-12-21 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | BOOK |
| Venue | Ovid's Homer (SOURCE_BOOK) |
| Publisher | Oxford University Press (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1093/oso/9780190680046.001.0001 |
| OpenAlex | W2791099685 |
| ISBN | 9780190680046 |
| Open Library | OL28644762M |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 8 |
This book is the first extended modern study of the Latin poet Ovid’s Homeric intertextuality. Ovid’s relationship with the Homeric poems is shown to be neither occasional nor simply incidental; rather, careful and creative readings of the abundant evidence of Ovid’s career-long engagement with the Iliad and the Odyssey demonstrate a coherent and profound pattern of animated intertextuality and transformative reception. Passages and poems from throughout Ovid’s major works offer a vivid picture of the ways in which Ovid styles himself as a worthy successor to Homer. Central to the discussion throughout the book are two central tropes, articulated on both the thematic and metatexual levels: paternity and desire. For Ovid, the poetics of paternity is a way of reading the Homeric poems, as well as a way of positioning himself as a legitimate heir to Homer’s poetic authority; and the poetics of desire, expressed especially strongly through repetition, allows Ovid to characterize himself as a devoted reader and editor of Homer, whose emulation of his model is grounded in an intimate appreciation for and knowledge of the text. Through a sustained reading sensitive to the dynamics of reception, this book puts forward a new perspective on Ovid, and offers a fertile model for the analysis of Latin poetry
Art · Close reading · Intertextuality · Linguistics · Literature · Poetics · Poetry · Reading (process · Reflexive pronoun · Theme (computing · Byzantine Studies and History · Classical Antiquity Studies · History · Philosophy · 43 b.c.-17 a.d. or 18 a.d · Ancient, Classical & Medieval · History and criticism · Homer · Influence · Influence (Literary, artistic, etc.) · Latin poetry · Ovid
| Citations per year | 1.14 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2019 - 2025 (7) |
| Highly cited | No |