Epic Succession and Dissension
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Sophia Papaioannou
About this book
This study constitutes the first modern book-length, in-depth critical analysis of Ovid, Metamorphoses 13.623–14.582. In this unit Ovid, by challenging openly the artistry of his great predecessor Vergil, redraws the parameters associated with the definition and appreciation of epic poetry. The book first introduces the methodological complexity of the Ovidian embrace strategy, and, subsequently, it reads the ‘little Aeneid’ closely, discussing the network of allusions to its prototype. It assesses the structure and thematics of each episode in the cluster, and traces the recurrence of prominent motifs throughout the Metamorphoses. Not least, it explores poetics, arguing that Ovid’s selective incorporation of the Aeneid reproduces the spirit and fundamental ideas of the model in an idiosyncratic sophisticated manner.
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Sophia Papaioannou teaches Latin Literature at the Department of Classics and Philosophy of the University of Cyprus.
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Acknowledgments
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Contents
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Abbreviations
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Introduction
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Summary of the ‘little Aeneid’ (Ovid, Met. 13.623-14.582)
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Chapter One Aeneads and Aniads: Offering Politics and the Politics of Offering, or Narrative Discourse on Anius' Crater (Met. 13.681-701)
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Chapter Two Immortality and Mutability: The Sibyl and the Power of Poetic Memory
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Chapter Three Centralizing the Marginal: The Anamorphosis of Achaemenides
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Chapter Four Marginalizing the Central: Macareus' Anamnesis
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Chapter Five Experimentation on a Narrative Chain I: Poetology, Epic Definition, and the Near-Swans of Diomedes
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Chapter Six Experimentation on a Narrative Chain II: Vergilian Ships and Ovidian Nymphs, and a Play of Literary Identities
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Chapter Seven Epic Conclusion and Epic Closure: The Fall of Ardea
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Bibliography
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Indexes
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