The Metamorphosis of Persephone
The Metamorphosis of Persephone
Ovid and the Self-conscious Muse
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Although Ovid is currently enjoying a new wave of popularity, most critics withhold from his poetry the close word-by-word readings that are necessary for a thorough understanding of it. Ovid twice treated the myth of Persephone, and Hinds's book is at first a historical inquiry--the most extensive yet done--into the double transformation in Metamorphosis 5 and Fasti 4 of the rape of Persephone, one of the great Graeco-Roman myths. The study continues as a critical exploration of Ovid's self-conscious delight in language and in writing manifested in these twin narratives, providing a feast for students of both Latin poetry and narratives in general.
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May 2007Paperback
9780521036238
200 pages
216 × 140 × 13 mm
0.266kg
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Table of Contents
- Acknowledgements
- Preface
- Part I. Two Settings for a Rape:
- 1. Metamorphoses 5.256–64: the Heliconian fount
- 2. Metamorphoses 5.385–91: the landscape of Enna
- Part II. Ovid's Two Persephones:
- 3. The Homeric Hymn to Demeter: Fasti 4
- 4. The Homeric Hymn to Demeter: Metamorphoses 5
- 5. Elegy and epic: a traditional approach
- 6. Elegy and epic: a new approach
- Epilogue
- Notes
- Works cited
- Index of passages discussed
- Index of subjects.
