Ovid's Metamorphoses : an introduction to the basic aspects, G. Karl Galinsky

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Ovid's Metamorphoses : an introduction to the basic aspects, G. Karl Galinsky

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https://archive.org/details/ovidsmetamorphos00gali

Title remainder

an introduction to the basic aspects

Statement of responsibility

G. Karl Galinsky

Instantiates

• Ovid's Metamorphoses : an introduction to the basic aspects

Publication

• Berkeley, University of California Press, 1975

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographies and indexes

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volume

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• nc

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rdacarrier

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text

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• txt

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rdacontent

Contents

Part I: Inspiration, tone and theme -- The Hellenenistic impulse and its modification -- The impulse of the Aeneid -- The relation to Ovid's earlier poetry -- Some aspects of the metamorphosis theme -- The function of metamorphosis -- Part II: Unity and coherence -- Part III: Ovid's humanity: death and suffering in the Metamorphoses -- Part IV: Humor and seriousness -- Types of humor -- The gods -- Self-irony -- 'Logical' incongruity and visual over-explicitness -- Literary allusiveness and parody -- Verbal wit -- The genre scene -- Part V: Ovid, Vergil, and Augustus -- 'Augustanism' and 'anti-Augustanism' -- Ovid's 'Aeneid' -- Augustus and Rome

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24 cm

Extent

xi, 285 pages, [1] leaf of plates

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9780520028487

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74084146

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unmediated

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rdamedia

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• n

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illustrations

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99186980360001161

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(OCoLC)1531634