Ovid's Homer: Authority, Repetition, Reception (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780190680046)

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
ISBN-10: 0190680040
ISBN-13: 9780190680046
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Language: English
Published: 12/05/2017
Pages: 320
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.45lbs
Size: 9.20h x 6.40w x 1.30d

Review Citation(s):
Choice 08/01/2018