The Metamorphosis of Persephone
Subtitle: Ovid and the Self-conscious Muse (Cambridge Classical Studies)
Edition: 1 edition
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: May 7, 2007
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 196
ISBN-13: 9780521036238
Subjects: Literary studies: classical, early & medieval; Language Arts & Disciplines; Language Arts / Linguistics / Literacy; Latin; Language; General; Language Arts & Disciplines / General; Literary Collections / Ancient, Classical & Medieval
First sentence: Ever since Hesiod's famous encounter at the beginning of the Theogony (most famously remembered by Callimachus in fragment 2 of the Aetia), the introduction into any poem of the Heliconian Muses, patron goddesses of literature itself, has always been a moment for the poet to turn in on himself (or rather, perhaps, to stand outside himself) so as to contemplate more obtrusively than elsewhere the nature of his own craft.