Ovid and Hesiod : The Metamorphosis of the Catalogue of Women


Ioannis. Ziogas
Bok Engelsk 2013 · Electronic books.
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Utgitt
Cambridge : Cambridge University Press , 2013
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1 online resource (262 p.)
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Description based upon print version of record.. - Contents; Preface; Acknowledgments; Introduction; Chapter 1 Helen; A Catalogue of Men in the Catalogue of Women; Ovid's suitor; Golden Aphrodite; The genealogical argument; For his eyes only; The revival of the Ehoiai; Conclusion; Chapter 2 Cosmos and Eros; Vergil as a Hesiodic poet; Metamorphoses: the primary narrator; Theogony-Works and Days; Deucalion and Pyrrha: Theogony-Catalogue of Women; Apollo: Theogony-Catalogue of Women; The loves of the gods: Io and Clymene; Tellus/Gaia: from the beginning of the Theogony to the end of the Catalogue; The loves of the gods: Callisto. - Genealogy and the loves of the gods: the stemma of the InachidsMetamorphoses: the internal narrators; Perseus as a Hesiodic poet; The Muses: Theogony-Catalogue of Women; Arachne; The song of Clymene; Conclusion; Chapter 3 Coronis and Mestra; Coronis; Achelous; Mestra; Conclusion; Chapter 4 Atalanta; Orpheus; Venus' Ehoie of Atalanta; Hesiod's Atalanta and Homer's Achilles; Ovid's Atalanta and Vergil's Aeneid; Sylleptic puns in the Catalogue of Women; Conclusion; Chapter 5 Caenis and Periclymenus; Caenis/Caeneus; Nestor: the novelty of an old tale. - The double life of Caeneus: gender-inversions and generic shiftsOr such as...Caenis; Hercules; Nestor's source manipulation; Nestor's version of Periclymenus; Conclusion; Concluding remarks; Bibliography; Index of passages discussed; General index. - Explores the previously neglected influence on Ovid's Metamorphoses of Hesiod, the most important archaic Greek poet after Homer.
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