Screen LibraryPhilosophy in Ovid, Ovid as philosopher /
"This volume contains sixteen essays on various aspects of Ovid's engagement with philosophical trends and topics. Ovid has long been celebrated for the versatility of his poetic imagination, the diversity of his generic experimentation throughout his long career, and his intimate engageme...
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Oxford University Press,
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| Publisher Address: | New York, NY : |
| Publication Dates: | [2022] |
| Literature type: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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"This volume contains sixteen essays on various aspects of Ovid's engagement with philosophical trends and topics. Ovid has long been celebrated for the versatility of his poetic imagination, the diversity of his generic experimentation throughout his long career, and his intimate engagement with the Greco-Roman literary tradition that precedes him; but what of his engagement with the philosophical tradition? Ovid's close familiarity with philosophical ideas and with specific philosophical texts has long been recognized, perhaps most prominently in the Pythagorean, Platonic, Empedoclean, and Lucretian shades that color his Metamorphoses. This philosophical component, however, has often been perceived as a feature subordinate to Ovid's larger literary agenda; and because of the controlling influence conceded to that literary impulse, readings of the philosophical dimension have often focused on the perceived distortion, ironizing, or parodying of philosophical sources and ideas. This book counters this tendency by (i) considering Ovid's seriousness of engagement with, and his possible critique of, the philosophical writings that inform his works; (ii) questioning the feasibility of separating out the categories of the "philosophical" and the "literary" in the first place; (iii) exploring the ways in which Ovid may offer unusual, controversial, or provocative reactions to received philosophical ideas; and (iv) investigating the case to be made for viewing the Ovidian corpus not just as a body of writings that are often philosophically inflected, but also as texts that may themselves be read as philosophically adventurous and experimental"-- |
| Carrier Form: | x, 400 pages : tables ; 25 cm |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages [351]-375) and indexes. |
| ISBN: |
9780197610336 0197610331 |
| Index Number: | PA6537 |
| CLC: | I546.072 |
| Call Number: | I546.072/P568 |
| Contents: |
Machine generated contents note: OVID'S SAPIENTIA -- Ouidius sapiens: The Wise Man in Ovid's Work / THE EROTIC CORPUS -- Elegy, Tragedy, and the Choice of Ovid (Amores 3.1) / Ovid's Ars amatoria and the Epicurean Hedonic Calculus / Criticizing Love's Critic: Epicurean parrhesia as an Instructional Mode in Ovidian Love Elegy / Ovid's imago mundi muliebris and the Makeup of the World in Ars amatoria 3.101-290 / Ovid's Art of Life / METAMORPHOSES -- Keep Up the Good Work: (Don't) Do It like Ovid (Sen. QNat. 3.27-30) / Venus discors: The Empedocleo-Lucretian Background of Venus and Calliope's Song in Metamorphoses 5 / Labor and pestis in Ovid's Metamorphoses / Cosmic Artistry in Ovid and Plato / Some Say the World Will End in Fire: Philosophizing the Memnonides in Ovid's Metamorphoses / THE EXILIC CORPUS -- Ovid against the Elements: Natural Philosophy, Paradoxography, and Ethnography in the Exile Poetry / Akrasia and Agency in Ovid's Tristia / Intimations of Mortality: Ovid and the End(s) of the World / The End(s) of Reason in Tomis: Philosophical Traces, Erasures, and Error in Ovid's Exilic Poetry / AFTER OVID -- Philosophizing and Theologizing Reincarnations of Ovid: Lucan to Alexander Pope / |