Ovid as an epic poet

by Brooks Otis

In his study of the structure of Ovid's Metamorphoses, Professor Otis shows that the real unity of the poem is to be sought not in the linkage but in the order or succession of episodes, motifs and ideas. The poem is nothing less than what Ovid called it, a carmen perpetuum, a narrative poem with a real continuity achieved by a gradual shift of emotional emphasis through a long series of episodes arranged in an elaborate pattern. For this second edition of his study of the Metamorphoses, originally published in 1970, Professor Otis has written a new concluding chapter. He also takes account of the constructive reviews of the first edition and a number of important books that had been published in the years following its publication. Further, he has removed what had emerged as some ambiguities in his conclusions and made some correction of emphasis to his judgements.

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[目次]

  • Prefaces
  • List of abbreviations
  • 1. The problem
  • 2. The limitations of the elegist
  • 3. The plan of Ovid's epic
  • 4. The divine comedy
  • 5. The avenging gods
  • 6. The pathos of love: I
  • 7. The pathos of love: II
  • 8. Troy and Rome
  • 9. Conclusion
  • Appendix
  • Indices.

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書名 Ovid as an epic poet
著作者等 Otis, Brooks
出版元 Cambridge University Press
刊行年月 1966
ページ数 xiv, 410 p.
大きさ 23 cm
ISBN 9780521143172
NCID BA15971572
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言語 英語
出版国 イギリス
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