Reflections in a Serpent's Eye: Thebes in Ovid's MetamorphosesOUP Oxford, 2009. gada 22. okt. - 276 lappuses Ovid's extraordinary story of Thebes' founding and bloody unravelling spans two books of his epic poem, the Metamorphoses. His bizarre refractions of the well-ordered community engage Ovid's own Rome and the mythohistory of the Eternal City's origins, most particularly as framed in Vergil's Aeneid (Vergil's poem attained nonpareil status as the Latin epic soon after publication). The Aeneid has regularly been read as persuasively formulating how and why Rome will stride forward into history, into manifest destiny, and into `empire without end'. The Metamorphoses' strangely fantastical surface reflects what is already inherently perverse in that master-narrative, disclosing the narrative's internal contradictions. Ovid rigorously and sceptically not only interrogates the existing (Roman) political order, claimed as lasting truth, but also the very possibility of organizing any polity into a harmonious, organically unified, lasting institution. |
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Happy Birthday Romulus | 1 |
Ovids Theban Law | 53 |
Juno in Thebes | 87 |
The Arrows of Loves Errors | 114 |
Narcissus as Oedipus | 156 |
6 Pentheus Monsters Thebes | 185 |
the PostAugustans | 224 |
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Permissions | 266 |
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Reflections in a Serpent's Eye: Thebes in Ovid's Metamorphoses Micaela Janan Ierobežota priekšskatīšana - 2009 |
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Acoetes Actaeon Aeëtes Aeneas Aeneid Agenor Anderson antinomies Augustus avenger Bacchus Bömer Cadmus Carthage Chapter citizens city's conceptual contradictions contrast death desire Diana divine Echo and Narcissus Echo's erotic Eteocles example fantasy female Freud goddess gods Hardie Hegel human identity insofar intertextuality Jove Jove's Juno Juno's Jupiter Jupiter's Kant Kant's killing king Konstan Lacan Laius Latin epic Livy logical lover marriage Metamorphoses mirrors mortal murder myth mythic narrative negation noumenon nymph object Oedipus organized Ovid Ovids Ovid's Theban Ovidian pattern Pentheus perspective phenomena pietas poem poet political Polyneices primal Father punishment rape Real reflection relation rivals Roman Rome Rome's Romulus Semele serpent sexes sexual signifier Silius simply snake Sophocles Spartoi specific status story Symbolic tale Theban cycle Thebes Thing tion Tiresias Totem transformation Trojan Turnus ultimately vengeance Vergil violence Woman women wrath Žižek