Epic Succession And Dissension
Subtitle: Ovid, Metamorphoses 13.623-14.582, And The Reinvention (Untersuchungen Zur Antiken Und Geschichte)
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter
Published: March 30, 2005
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 218
ISBN-13: 9783110183269
Subjects: Literary studies: classical, early & medieval; Reference; History - General History; Latin; Ancient - General; General
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'.
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.