Ovid's Homer(English, Hardcover, Boyd Barbara)

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Ovid's Homer(English, Hardcover, Boyd Barbara) is written by Boyd Barbara and published by Oxford University Press Inc. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 0190680040 (ISBN 10) and 9780190680046 (ISBN 13).

Ovid's Homer examines the Latin poet's engagement with the Homeric poems throughout his career. Boyd offers detailed analysis of Ovid's reading and reinterpretation of a range of Homeric episodes and characters from both epics, and demonstrates the pervasive presence of Homer in Ovid's work. The resulting intertextuality, articulated as a poetics of paternity or a poetics of desire, is particularly marked in scenes that have a history of scholiastic interest or critical intervention; Ovid repeatedly asserts his mastery as Homeric reader and critic through his creative response to alternative readings, and in the process renews Homeric narrative for a sophisticated Roman readership. Boyd offers new insight into the dynamics of a literary tradition, illuminating a previously underappreciated aspect of Ovidian intertextuality.