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KlappentextAriadne´s elegiac letter to her faithless Theseus offers the epistolary mise en scène of the heroine´s lamentation previously versified by Catullus in his epyllion (carmen 64). The Ovidian text looks retrospectively at its predecessor and is inevitably indebted to it. This volume explores the complex relationship between the Ovidian and the Catullan model and focuses on literary memory, allusive forms, generic boundaries and transgression. Resorting to more recent interpretative approaches and an updated bibliography, the introduction aims at disclosing the parallel construction of text and character, placing emphasis on the sophisticated dialogic contact with the source-texts (e.g. from elegy, epic, comedy) and its literary effects on the epistle. The text also deals with some metaliterary and authorial instances to which readers of the Heroides are quite familiar. The commentary surveys aspects of Ovidian language and style and discusses major textual problems shedding light on literary sources and strategies of dramatic irony.epistle to its literary models.

Zusatztext"This book is a solid and valuable contribution to the study of Ovid's Heriodes, and a notable addition to the series of commentaries on this work. It contains useful information, interesting observations, thought-provoking discussions, and fresh ideas on Ariadne's letter to Theseus. It is a readable, well-presented, and easily used book, which has much to offer to the reader of Her. 10. [...] I believe that it will prove most useful for both teaching and research, so I would gladly recommend B.'s commentary to students and scholars alike."Andreas N. Michalopoulos in: Exemplaria Classica 15 (2011)

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ISBN/GTIN978-3-11-024085-6

ProduktartBuch

EinbandartGebunden

Verlag

De Gruyter

Erscheinungsjahr2010

Erscheinungsdatum28.09.2010

ReiheTexte und Kommentare

Reihen-Nr.35

Seiten143 Seiten