Publication

2005-03-30 - Walter de Gruyter

Language

English

Word Count

54,500 words, Guess

Page Count

218 pages

Physical Format

Hardcover

Identifiers

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Classifications

  • LCCPA6519.M9 P37 2005

Description

This is a direct literary adaptation of Virgil's Aeneid. The present study demonstrates how, in less than one thousand lines, Ovid revisits the epic world of Aeneas and subjects it to a reading that is a paradigm of critical analysis, a statement of originality, and a powerful claim to the epic heritage and Virgilian succession.

First Sentence

The text of the Metamorphoses is both a challenge as well as a response to the Aeneid,1 yet nowhere in the course of the fifteen books of the poem does Ovid confront his great predecessor more directly than in the 'little Aeneid'.

Subjects

Other Editions

  • Epic Succession And Dissension: Ovid, Metamorphoses 13.623-14.582, And The Reinvention (Untersuchungen Zur Antiken Und Geschichte)HardcoverWalter de Gruyter2005-03-30

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