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OverviewOvid is today best known for his grand epic, Metamorphoses, and elegiac works like the Ars Amatoria and Heroides. Yet he also wrote a Medea, now unfortunately lost. This play kindled in him a lifelong interest in the genre of tragedy, which informed his later poetry and enabled him to continue his career as a tragedian – if only on the page instead of the stage. This book surveys tragic characters, motifs and modalities in the Heroides and the Metamorphoses. In writing love letters, Ovid's heroines and heroes display their suffering in an epistolary theater. In telling transformation stories, Ovid offers an exploded view of the traditional theater, although his characters never stray too far from their dramatic origins. Both works constitute an intratextual network of tragic stories that anticipate the theatrical excesses of Seneca and reflect the all-encompassing spirit of Roman imperium. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Dan Curley (Professor, Skidmore College, New York)Publisher: Cambridge University Press Imprint: Cambridge University Press (Virtual Publishing) ISBN: 9780511841811ISBN 10: 0511841817 Publication Date: 05 June 2013 Audience: Professional and scholarly , Professional & Vocational , Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly Format: Undefined Publisher's Status: Active Availability: In stock  We have confirmation that this item is in stock with the supplier. It will be ordered in for you and dispatched immediately. Table of Contents1. Mutatas dicere formas: the transformation of tragedy; 2. Nunc habeam per te Romana Tragoedia nomen: Ovid's Medea and Roman tragedy; 3. Lacrimas finge videre meas: epistolary theater; 4. Locus exstat et ex re nomen habet: space, time, and spectacle; 5. Tollens ad sidera palmas exclamat: staging rhetoric; 6. Medeae Medea forem: tragic intratextuality; 7. Carmen et error: tragedy's end.ReviewsAuthor InformationDan Curley is Associate Professor of Classics at Skidmore College. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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