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Ovid: A  Very Short Introduction [#653]
Ovid: A  Very Short Introduction [#653]
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帝政ローマ最初期を代表する詩人オウィディウス(紀元前43-西暦18年)が登場した時代と文学的背景を明らかにするとともに、その作品、恋愛、変身譚、ローマの年中行事、アウグストゥス帝の命による配流、名声をもたらした才気とウィットあふれる革新的な作品群、そしてシェイクスピアからベリーニまで、後世の文学や芸術に与えた絶大な影響を紹介します。興味深い生涯を送り、個人的な感情や自伝的要素を詠んだ作品は今なお今日性を失っておらず、色褪せない魅力を放っています。(cf. Metamorphoses (Oxford World's Classics); The Love Poems (Oxford World's Classics) ほか)
  

  • Explores the core themes running throughout Ovid's poetic works
  • Sets the poet and his writing in the wider literary and social context
  • Discusses Ovid's own turbulent personal life, including his fall from grace and subsequent exile

   
"Vivam" is the very last word of Ovid's masterpiece, the Metamorphoses: "I shall live." If we're still reading it two millennia after Ovid's death, this is by definition a remarkably accurate prophecy. Ovid was not the only ancient author with aspirations to be read for eternity, but no poet of the Greco-Roman world has had a deeper or more lasting impact on subsequent literature and art than he can claim. In the present day no Greek or Roman poet is as accessible, to artists, writers, or the general reader: Ovid's voice remains a compellingly contemporary one, as modern as it seemed to his contemporaries in Augustan Rome. But Ovid was also a man of his time, his own story fatally entwined with that of the first emperor Augustus, and the poetry he wrote channels in its own way the cultural and political upheavals of the contemporary city, its public life, sexual mores, religion, and urban landscape, while also exploiting the superbly rich store of poetic convention that Greek literature and his Roman predecessors had bequeathed to him.
  
This Very Short Introduction explains Ovid's background, social and literary, and introduces his poetry, on love, metamorphosis, Roman festivals, and his own exile, a restlessly innovative oeuvre driven by the irrepressible ingenium or wit for which he was famous. Llewelyn Morgan also explores Ovid's immense influence on later literature and art, spanning from Shakespeare to Bernini. Throughout, Ovid's poetry is revealed as enduringly scintillating, his personal story compelling, and the issues his life and poetry raise of continuing relevance and interest.

目次: 

Acknowledgements
List of Illustrations
1:Introduction: P. Ovidius Naso
2:Love Poetry
3:Letters of the Heroines
4:Metamorphoses
5:Fasti
6:Exile Poetry
Further reading
Index

著者について: 

Llewelyn Morgan, Professor of Classical Literature, University of Oxford
  
Llewelyn Morgan is a scholar of Roman literature at Brasenose College, Oxford. He has written numerous articles on various aspects of Roman poetry, primarily focusing on the works of Virgil, Horace and Ovid. His books focus on Virgil's Georgics and on poetic metre. Morgan has been teaching at the University of Oxford for twenty years.

"It is hard to imagine a VSI volume on Ovid that could be better executed in terms of the balance it achieves between its breadth of vision, on the one hand, and its eye for particularity, on the other." - Gareth Williams, Columbia University , Romantic Review
  

"It has to be said immediately that the publishers have found a first-class writer-academic for the job of describing Ovid's character and range, and explaining the appeal of 'this scintillating Roman poet'." - Giles Dawson, Freelance Classics teacher, Oxfordshire, The Journal of Classics Teaching
  

"Ovid has found a kindred spirit in Llewellyn Morgan, who has succeeded in telling the story of the most brilliantly playful of Roman poets in 111 pages, touching all the bases and producing a pleasantly readable libellus." - Katharina Volk, Bryn Mawr Classical Review
  

"Short but eye opening book." - Tom Holland, New Statesman
  

"A crisp, sparkling distillation of long thought." - Michael Wood, Comfort Classics
  

"This one is a really loving account of Ovid, with a very simple structure. It takes you through his major works, with the Metamorphoses obviously at the centre. [...] It's a wonderful little book. I can't think of a better introduction to the work of this figure who is, arguably, the single most influential poet of antiquity." - Paul Lay, FiveBooks

商品情報

ISBN : 9780198837688

著者: 
Llewelyn Morgan
ページ
152 ページ
フォーマット
Paperback
サイズ
111 x 174 mm
刊行日
2020年09月
シリーズ
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Ovid: A  Very Short Introduction [#653]

Ovid: A Very Short Introduction [#653]

Ovid: A  Very Short Introduction [#653]