The Metamorphoses of Ancient Myths
Myth - Scholia - Greek tragedy - Byzantine epigram - Pliny the Elder - Cicero - Seneca - Seferis' existential poetry - Goll's postdramatic theatre - Müller - Irish drama - Mouawad's play - Jelinek - refugees' crisis - Staging death - Decorum - Polish theatre - German theatre - T…
The metamorphoses of ancient myths
The author explores the complex encounters between Ovid's 'Metamorphoses' and its translators in order to consider the ways in which the translator represented himself, or herself, as the subject of language and desire.
The author explores the complex encounters between Ovid's 'Metamorphoses' and its translators in order to consider the ways in which the translator represented himself, or herself, as the subject of language and desire.
The verse-by-verse commentary on the Ovidian text includes the reading of more than 300 manuscripts, including the so-called Heinsian manuscripts, and of almost 100 editions, from the two "editiones principes" of 1471 to the present day.The introduction describes the manuscripts…
This book examines the comic and philosophical aspects of Apuleius' Metamorphoses, the ancient Roman novel also known as The Golden Ass. The tales that comprise the novel, long known for their bawdiness and wit, describe the adventures of Lucius, a man who is transformed into an…
"In this useful contribution to a subject of growing importance in contemporary classical studies, Andreas Michalopoulos has collected around 200 etymologies and etymological complexes in Ovid's Metamorphoses. These are listed with brief accounts of the context, evidence for the…
"This book explores Callimachus' allusive practice in his Aetia prologue and Hymns 4, 5, and 6, and in Ovid's Metamorphoses. The study includes an overview of modern approaches to poetic allusion, a close (re- ) examination of the lexical allusions in the Aetia's and Metamorphos…