Although repetition is found in all ancient literary genres, it is especially pervasive in epic poetry. Ovid's Metamorphoses exploits this dimension of the epic genre to a great extent; past critics have faulted it as too filled with recycled themes and language. This volume seeks a deeper understanding of Ovidian repetitiveness in the context of new scholarship on intertextuality and intratextuality, examining the purposeful reuse of previous material and the effects produced by a text's repetitive gestures.
A shared vision of the possibilities of Latin epic poetry unites the essays, as does a series of attempts to realize those opportunities. Some of the pieces represent a traditional vein of allusion and intertextuality; others are more innovative in their approaches. Each, in a sense, stands as a placeholder for a methodology of theorizing the repetitive practices of poetry, of epic, and of Ovid in particular.Contributors: Antony Augoustakis, Neil W. Bernstein, Barbara Weiden Boyd, Andrew Feldherr, Peter Heslin, Stephen Hinds, Sharon L. James, Alison Keith, Peter E. Knox, Darcy Krasne

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Information

Publisher

University of Wisconsin Press

Year

2016

ISBN

9780299307530

Topic

Literature

Subtopic

Literary Criticism

Index

Literature

Contents
Preface
Introduction: Echoes of the Past / Laurel Fulkerson and Tim Stover
1. Nothing like the Sun: Repetition and Representation in Ovid’s Phaethon Narrative / Andrew Feldherr
2. Repeat after Me: The Loves of Venus and Mars in Ars amatoria 2 and Metamorphoses 4 / Barbara Weiden Boyd
3. Ovid’s Cycnus and Homer’s Achilles Heel / Peter Heslin
4. Loca luminis haurit: Ovid’s Recycling of Hecuba / Antony Augoustakis
5. Succeeding Succession: Cosmic and Earthly Succession in the Fasti and Metamorphoses / Darcy Krasne
6. Rape and Repetition in Ovid’s Metamorphoses: Myth, History, Structure, Rome / Sharon L. James
7. Metamorphoses in a Cold Climate / Peter E. Knox
8. Ovidian Itineraries in Flavian Epic / Alison Keith
9. Revisiting Ovidian Silius, along with Lucretian, Vergilian, and Lucanian Silius / Neil W. Bernstein
10. Return to Enna: Ovid and Ovidianism in Claudian’s De raptu Proserpinae / Stephen Hinds
Works Cited
Contributors
Index
Index Locorum