The Fictional Origins of ‘Heroic’ Rape Imagery: Callisto, Arachne, and Pygmalion’s Statue in Ovid’s Metamorphoses

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter I
2. Preface V
3. Table of Contents VII
4. Introduction: To Unravel the Origins 1
5. Cultural History and Homeric Scholarship in Thucydides’ Archaeology 21
6. Archäologie als Argument. Formen und Funktionen des Erzählens vom Altertum bei Platon 55
7. (Re‐)Inscribing the Past, Interpreting the Present: The Archaiologiai of Hellenistic Inscriptions 71
8. Sallust’s ‘Archaeology’ in Bellum Catilinae 101
9. Dicaearchus and Varro: Cultural History Between Bio-logy and Genea-logy 131
10. Mankind and Mother Earth: Lucretius, Seneca, and Universal History 151
11. Vergil and Early Human History 179
12. Il ruolo della famiglia nella tradizione dei testi e nella costruzione di una storia culturale antica 199
13. The Fictional Origins of ‘Heroic’ Rape Imagery: Callisto, Arachne, and Pygmalion’s Statue in Ovid’s Metamorphoses 223
14. Undoing Origins, Challenging the Roots: The late antique Origo gentis Romanae 249
15. List of Contributors 269
16. Index of Names 271
17. Index of Passages 275