The metamorphosis of Persephone: Ovid and the self-conscious muse

by: Hinds, S.

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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.

Table of Contents
Acknowledgements
Preface
Part I. Two Settings for a Rape:
1. Metamorphoses 5.256–64: the Heliconian fount
2. Metamorphoses 5.385–91: the landscape of Enna
Part II. Ovid's Two Persephones:
3. The Homeric Hymn to Demeter: Fasti 4
4. The Homeric Hymn to Demeter: Metamorphoses 5
5. Elegy and epic: a traditional approach
6. Elegy and epic: a new approach
Epilogue
Notes
Works cited
Index of passages discussed
Index of subjects.

The metamorphosis of Persephone: Ovid and the self-conscious muse

by: Hinds, S.

• ISBN-13: 9780521335065 / 978-0-521-33506-5
• ISBN-03: 052133506X / 0-521-33506-X
• Cambridge University Press, Cambridge , 1987

Price: 65,00 EURO

1 copy in stock