Ovid'S Homer: Authority, Repetition, Reception

Ovid's Homer examines the Latin poet's engagement with the Homeric poems throughout his career. Boyd offers detailed analysis of Ovid's reading and reinterpretation of a range of Homeric episodes and characters from both epics, and demonstrates the pervasive presence of Homer in Ovid's work. The resulting intertextuality, articulated as a poetics of paternity or a poetics of desire, is particularly marked in scenes that have a history of scholiastic interest or critical intervention; Ovid repeatedly asserts his mastery as Homeric reader and critic through his creative response to alternative readings, and in the process renews Homeric narrative for a sophisticated Roman readership. Boyd offers new insight into the dynamics of a literary tradition, illuminating a previously underappreciated aspect of Ovidian intertextuality.

• | Author: Barbara Weiden Boyd
• | Publisher: Oxford University Press
• | Publication Date: Dec 05, 2017
• | Number of Pages: 321 pages
• | Language: English
• | Binding: Hardcover/Literary Criticism
• | ISBN-10: 0190680040
• | ISBN-13: 9780190680046