Stephen Hinds: The Metamorphosis of Persephone, Gebunden
The Metamorphosis of Persephone
- Ovid and the Self-Conscious Muse
- Publisher:
- R. Lanny Hunter
- Publisher:
- Cambridge University Press, 07/2003
- Binding:
- Gebunden, HC gerader Rücken kaschiert
- Language:
- Englisch
- ISBN-13:
- 9780521335065
- Item number:
- 5601858
- Volume:
- 200 Pages
- Weight:
- 392 g
- Format:
- 222 x 145 mm
- Thickness:
- 14 mm
- Release date:
- 23.7.2003
- Note
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Caution: Product is not in German language
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Blurb
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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