Author: Llewelyn Morgan
Publisher:
ISBN: 0198837682
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 145
Book Description
Ovid, wittiest of ancient poets, has been an influential model for writers and artists throughout the ages. Llewelyn Morgan introduces the poet and his works, describing each of his poems in turn, setting them in their social and literary context, and considering the twist of events that led to the exile of Rome's most celebrated artist.
Ovid
Author: Llewelyn Morgan
Publisher:
ISBN: 0198837682
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 145
Book Description
Ovid, wittiest of ancient poets, has been an influential model for writers and artists throughout the ages. Llewelyn Morgan introduces the poet and his works, describing each of his poems in turn, setting them in their social and literary context, and considering the twist of events that led to the exile of Rome's most celebrated artist.
Publisher:
ISBN: 0198837682
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 145
Book Description
Ovid, wittiest of ancient poets, has been an influential model for writers and artists throughout the ages. Llewelyn Morgan introduces the poet and his works, describing each of his poems in turn, setting them in their social and literary context, and considering the twist of events that led to the exile of Rome's most celebrated artist.
Fasti: commentary
Author: Ovid
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : la
Pages : 72
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : la
Pages : 72
Book Description
Playing with Time
Author: Carole Elizabeth Newlands
Publisher: Cornell University Press
ISBN: 9780801430800
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 284
Book Description
Ovid's Fasti, unlike his Metamorphoses, is anchored in Rome: religion, history and legend, monuments, and character. The poem interprets the Augustan period not as a golden age of peace and prosperity, Carole E. Newlands asserts, but as an age of experimentation, negotiation, compromise, and unresolved tensions. Newlands maintains that, despite the Fasti's basic adherence to the format of the calendar, the text is carefully constructed to reflect the tensions within its subject: the new Roman year. Ovid plays with the calendar. Through the alteration or omission of significant dates, through skilled juxtapositions, through multiple narrators and the development of an increasingly unreliable authorial persona, Ovid opens to a critical and often humorous scrutiny the political ideology of the calendar. By adding astronomical observations and aetiological explanations for certain constellations, Newlands says, Ovid introduced the richly allusive world of Greek mythology to the calendar. Newlands restores the poem to a position of importance, one displaying Ovid's wit and intellect at its best. The incompleteness of the Fasti, she adds, is a comment on the discord that characterized Augustus' later years and led to enforced silences.
Publisher: Cornell University Press
ISBN: 9780801430800
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 284
Book Description
Ovid's Fasti, unlike his Metamorphoses, is anchored in Rome: religion, history and legend, monuments, and character. The poem interprets the Augustan period not as a golden age of peace and prosperity, Carole E. Newlands asserts, but as an age of experimentation, negotiation, compromise, and unresolved tensions. Newlands maintains that, despite the Fasti's basic adherence to the format of the calendar, the text is carefully constructed to reflect the tensions within its subject: the new Roman year. Ovid plays with the calendar. Through the alteration or omission of significant dates, through skilled juxtapositions, through multiple narrators and the development of an increasingly unreliable authorial persona, Ovid opens to a critical and often humorous scrutiny the political ideology of the calendar. By adding astronomical observations and aetiological explanations for certain constellations, Newlands says, Ovid introduced the richly allusive world of Greek mythology to the calendar. Newlands restores the poem to a position of importance, one displaying Ovid's wit and intellect at its best. The incompleteness of the Fasti, she adds, is a comment on the discord that characterized Augustus' later years and led to enforced silences.
The Neo-Latin Verse of Urban VIII, Alexander VII and Leo XIII
Author: Stephen Harrison
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN: 1350292397
Category : Foreign Language Study
Languages : en
Pages : 289
Book Description
A fascinating insight into the most talented Latin poets to occupy the Papal throne after Pius II Piccolomini in the 15th century, this book offers translations of and commentaries on the major poems of the three popes (all Italians): Urban VIII Barberini, Alexander VII Chigi and Leo XIII Pecci. Their highly accomplished Neo-Latin poems owe much to the major Latin poets and are significant instances of classical reception, but also cast an interesting light on their lives, times and papacies. Urban (elected pope in 1623) published a mixture of secular and religious verse, drawing on the hexameter epistles of Horace and the lyrics of Catullus and writing Horatian material in praise of Alessandro Farnese, governor of the Netherlands for Philip II of Spain, and the Spanish martyr St Laurence. Alexander (elected pope in 1655) like Urban combines secular and religious themes and often uses Horatian frameworks, writing hexameter accounts of some of the journeys he made as a papal diplomat in Germany and an Horatian ode on the fall of the Protestant stronghold of La Rochelle (1628). Leo's poetry was mostly religious and published during his papacy (1878-1903); his Horatian ode on the new millennium of 1900 was widely read, and other works include an elegy which links a shrine of the Virgin with the Battle of Lepanto; an Horatian satire on moderate diet; and hymns to saints which combine early Christian and Horatian forms.
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN: 1350292397
Category : Foreign Language Study
Languages : en
Pages : 289
Book Description
A fascinating insight into the most talented Latin poets to occupy the Papal throne after Pius II Piccolomini in the 15th century, this book offers translations of and commentaries on the major poems of the three popes (all Italians): Urban VIII Barberini, Alexander VII Chigi and Leo XIII Pecci. Their highly accomplished Neo-Latin poems owe much to the major Latin poets and are significant instances of classical reception, but also cast an interesting light on their lives, times and papacies. Urban (elected pope in 1623) published a mixture of secular and religious verse, drawing on the hexameter epistles of Horace and the lyrics of Catullus and writing Horatian material in praise of Alessandro Farnese, governor of the Netherlands for Philip II of Spain, and the Spanish martyr St Laurence. Alexander (elected pope in 1655) like Urban combines secular and religious themes and often uses Horatian frameworks, writing hexameter accounts of some of the journeys he made as a papal diplomat in Germany and an Horatian ode on the fall of the Protestant stronghold of La Rochelle (1628). Leo's poetry was mostly religious and published during his papacy (1878-1903); his Horatian ode on the new millennium of 1900 was widely read, and other works include an elegy which links a shrine of the Virgin with the Battle of Lepanto; an Horatian satire on moderate diet; and hymns to saints which combine early Christian and Horatian forms.
Ovid: Fasti Book 3
Author: S. J. Heyworth
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1107016479
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 299
Book Description
Presents a clear and detailed guide to a central book of the Fasti, Ovid's account of Rome and its calendar.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1107016479
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 299
Book Description
Presents a clear and detailed guide to a central book of the Fasti, Ovid's account of Rome and its calendar.
Ovid
Author: Carole E. Newlands
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN: 0857726609
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 210
Book Description
Newlands provides an extensive overview and analysis of Ovid s works."
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN: 0857726609
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 210
Book Description
Newlands provides an extensive overview and analysis of Ovid s works."
The Academy
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Education, Secondary
Languages : en
Pages : 516
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Education, Secondary
Languages : en
Pages : 516
Book Description
Ovid
Author: Katharina Volk
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
ISBN: 1444351508
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 162
Book Description
This book provides a unique and accessible introduction to the complete works of Ovid. Using a thematic approach, Volk lays out what we know about Ovid's life, presents the author's works within their poetic genres, and discusses central Ovidian themes. The first general introduction to Ovid written in English in over 20 years, offering the very latest Ovidian scholarship Discusses the complete works of Ovid Accessible writing and a thematic approach make this text ideal for a broad audience A current revival in Ovid makes this timely edition highly valuable
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
ISBN: 1444351508
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 162
Book Description
This book provides a unique and accessible introduction to the complete works of Ovid. Using a thematic approach, Volk lays out what we know about Ovid's life, presents the author's works within their poetic genres, and discusses central Ovidian themes. The first general introduction to Ovid written in English in over 20 years, offering the very latest Ovidian scholarship Discusses the complete works of Ovid Accessible writing and a thematic approach make this text ideal for a broad audience A current revival in Ovid makes this timely edition highly valuable
The Poems of Valerius Catullus Translated Into English Verse with Life Ofthe Poet, Excursus, and Illustrative Notes by James Cranstoun
Author: Gaius Valerius Catullus
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 312
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 312
Book Description
Ovid
Author: Alfred John Church
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 148
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 148
Book Description