Εpic Pastures: Reshaping Epic and Pastoral in Ovid’s ›Metamorphoses‹

Eleni Ntanou

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Εpic Pastures

Reshaping Epic and Pastoral in Ovid’s ›Metamorphoses‹

Eleni Ntanou

Language: English

Published/Copyright: 2025

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Volume 180 | Trends in Classics - Supplementary Volumes

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Although nearly all scholars acknowledge that the Metamorphoses appears to engage with pastoral poetry, there has not been a monograph specifically designed to address and explore the interaction between pastoral and epic in the Metamorphoses. This book fills in this gap, building on modern approaches to intertextuality, Ovidian, and pastoral studies.

The present book is comprised from five main chapters: 1. Pastoral Encounters, 2. Female Pastoral, 3. Mourning Pastoral, 4. Pastoral Ascent in the Metamorphoses, 5. Pastoral, Golden Age and the Metamorphoses). The chapters are often in dialogue with one another, thus offering a more sustained examination of the topic. Alongside the lack of comprehensive monograph on pastoral in the Metamorphoses, the preseny book’s originality and contribution lie on the exploration of pastoral in the Metamorphoses through the lenses of fiction, heroics, and gender, notions which are interwoven throughout the chapters.

This modern approach to generic interaction will be useful for scholars working on Ovid and across the range of Greek and Roman literature, as well as for students of Classics.

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Eleni Ntanou, National And Kapodistrian University Of Athens, Athens, Greece.

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	I
Preface Publicly Available Download PDF	V
Acknowledgments Publicly Available Download PDF	VII
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	IX
List of Abbreviations Publicly Available Download PDF	XIII
Introduction Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	1
Part I: ‘Pastoral’ Encounters
1 Founding Pastoral in the Metamorphoses: The Creation of the Syrinx Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	47
2 Non est tibia tanti: Apollo vs Marsyas and Pan Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	61
3 Mercury and Battus Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	75
Part II: Female Voice, Pastoral, and Epic
4 Pierides and Muses Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	85
5 Arethusa Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	98
6 Galatea Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	120
Part III: Pastoralised Laments
7 Narcissus’ Lament for Narcissus: Grieving within Genres Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	139
8 Cry me a River: The Lament for Marsyas Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	152
9 Metas imitata cupressus (Met. 10.106): Generic Borders of Grief in the Cyparissus Story Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	158
10 The Lament for Orpheus: Transforming the Virgilian Mourner into an Ovidian Hero Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	165
11 Semper, Adoni, mei, repetitaque mortis imago (10.726): Ovid’s Venus and Bion’s Lament for Adonis Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	174
Part IV: Surgamus: solet esse grauis cantantibus umbra: Pastoral Ascent in the Metamorphoses
12 Orpheus in siluis: Ovid’s Orpheus, the Eclogues, and the Georgics Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	187
13 Vertumnus and Pomona Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	201
14 Talia nequiquam questus (nam cuncta uidebam) surgit: Generic Rise and the End of Pastoral Performances Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	211
Part V: Pastoral, Golden Age, and the Metamorphoses
15 Golden Age and Pastoral in Metamorphoses 1 Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	227
16 Pythagoras’ Speech: Can the Golden Age Be Revived? Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	243
17 New Beginnings (?): Midas and the Perversion of the Golden Age Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	256
18 Conclusion Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	271
Bibliography Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	275
General Index Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	295

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eBook published on:

March 17, 2025

eBook ISBN:

9783111531472

Hardcover published on:

March 17, 2025

Hardcover ISBN:

9783111529134

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Front matter:

11

Main content:

298

https://doi.org/10.1515/9783111531472

eBook ISBN: 9783111531472

Hardcover ISBN: 9783111529134

Keywords for this book

Generic Interaction; Epic; Pastoral; Ovid

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Academics and students in Classics, Classical Studies, Classical Philology

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