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Ovid and Hesiod: the Metamorphosis of the Catalogue of Women

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Explores the previously neglected influence on Ovid's Metamorphoses of Hesiod, the most important archaic Greek poet after Homer. This work argues that a profound engagement with Hesiod is central to Ovid's poetic world. The influence on Ovid of Hesiod, the most important archaic Greek poet after Homer, has been underestimated. Yet, as this book shows, a profound engagement with Hesiod's themes is central to Ovid's poetic world.

Author(s): Ziogas, Ioannis
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Year: 2013

Language: English
Pages: 262
City: Cambridge
Tags: Catalogus feminarum;Hesiod -- Influence;Hesiod;Intertextuality;Ovid, 43 B C -17 or 18 A D -- Criticism and interpretation;Women and literature -- Greece -- History -- To 1500

Preface
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Chapter 1 Helen
A Catalogue of Men in the Catalogue of Women
Ovid's suitor
Golden Aphrodite
The genealogical argument
For his eyes only
The revival of the Ehoiai
Conclusion
Chapter 2 Cosmos and Eros
Vergil as a Hesiodic poet
Metamorphoses: the primary narrator
Theogony-Works and Days
Deucalion and Pyrrha: Theogony-Catalogue of Women
Apollo: Theogony-Catalogue of Women
The loves of the gods: Io and Clymene
Tellus/Gaia: from the beginning of the Theogony to the end of the Catalogue
The loves of the gods: Callisto. Genealogy and the loves of the gods: the stemma of the InachidsMetamorphoses: the internal narrators
Perseus as a Hesiodic poet
The Muses: Theogony-Catalogue of Women
Arachne
The song of Clymene
Conclusion
Chapter 3 Coronis and Mestra
Coronis
Achelous
Mestra
Conclusion
Chapter 4 Atalanta
Orpheus
Venus' Ehoie of Atalanta
Hesiod's Atalanta and Homer's Achilles
Ovid's Atalanta and Vergil's Aeneid
Sylleptic puns in the Catalogue of Women
Conclusion
Chapter 5 Caenis and Periclymenus
Caenis/Caeneus
Nestor: the novelty of an old tale. The double life of Caeneus: gender-inversions and generic shiftsOr such as ... Caenis
Hercules
Nestor's source manipulation
Nestor's version of Periclymenus
Conclusion
Concluding remarks
Bibliography
Index of passages discussed
General index.