Chapter Seven Epic Conclusion and Epic Closure: The Fall of Ardea

Chapters in this book

1. i-vi i
2. Acknowledgments vii
3. Contents ix
4. Abbreviations xi
5. Introduction 1
6. Summary of the ‘little Aeneid’ (Ovid, Met. 13.623-14.582) 16
7. Chapter One Aeneads and Aniads: Offering Politics and the Politics of Offering, or Narrative Discourse on Anius' Crater (Met. 13.681-701) 19
8. Chapter Two Immortality and Mutability: The Sibyl and the Power of Poetic Memory 43
9. Chapter Three Centralizing the Marginal: The Anamorphosis of Achaemenides 75
10. Chapter Four Marginalizing the Central: Macareus' Anamnesis 113
11. Chapter Five Experimentation on a Narrative Chain I: Poetology, Epic Definition, and the Near-Swans of Diomedes 143
12. Chapter Six Experimentation on a Narrative Chain II: Vergilian Ships and Ovidian Nymphs, and a Play of Literary Identities 167
13. Chapter Seven Epic Conclusion and Epic Closure: The Fall of Ardea 187
14. Bibliography 199
15. Indexes 209