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Written as a knight between the 14th and 14th centuries and placed on the ridge between the "medium" and "art" prose, the Trojan Istorietta, anonymous and partial version of the third prose editorial of the Roman river Troy de Benoît de Sainte-Maure (ca. 1165), narrates, with emotional significance and stylistic conciseness, a part of that story that had been constituted in the Latin Middle Ages by merging the stories of Darete Frigio and Ditti Cretese and revitalizing them, in the French world, in the light of sensitivity of the XII century. The suggestions of the classical myth, filtered by a typical actualizing attitude, let slip the aspiration to ideals of beauty (Elena), of strength (Achille, Ettore) and courtesy (the city of Troia) capable of attracting a municipal public that aspires to an educational and cultural elevation.

Ovid, --- Troy (Extinct city)

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This book aims to show the metamorphic nature of Ovid's reception in twentieth-century Italian literature. It is a study of the aesthetic effects of Ovid's poetics within both the novel and poetry tradition in Italy. By using a historical and philological methodology, the authors of each essay have shown the hermeneutic power of Ovid, read as a constant intertextual presence. From Giovanni Pascoli to Eugenio Montale, from Italo Calvino to Antonio Tabucchi, in this book Ovid's reception is finally shown to be as important as Virgil's and offers new important tools in order to understand the role of Latin literature in the twentieth century.

Italian literature --- Roman influences --- Ovid, --- Influence --- Influence. --- Ovidius Naso, Publius.

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Ovid transformed English Renaissance literary ideas about love, erotic desire, embodiment, and gender more than any other classical poet. Ovidian concepts of femininity have been well served by modern criticism, but Ovid's impact on masculinity in Renaissance literature remains underexamined. This volume explores how English Renaissance writers shifted away from Virgilian heroic figures to embrace romantic ideals of courtship, civility, and friendship. Ovid's writing about masculinity, love, and desire shaped discourses of masculinity across a wide range of literary texts of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, including poetry, prose fiction, and drama. The book covers all major works by Ovid, in addition to Italian humanists Angelo Poliziano and Natale Conti, canonical writers such as William Shakespeare, Christopher Marlowe, Ben Jonson, Edmund Spenser, Philip Sidney, and John Milton, and lesser-known writers such as Wynkyn de Worde, Michael Drayton, Thomas Lodge, Richard Johnson, Robert Greene, John Marston, Thomas Heywood, and Francis Beaumont. Individual essays examine emasculation, abjection, pacifism, female masculinity, boys' masculinity, parody, hospitality, and protean Jewish masculinity. Ovid and Masculinity in English Renaissance Literature demonstrates how Ovid's poetry gave vigour and vitality to male voices in English literature - how his works inspired English writers to reimagine the male authorial voice, the male body, desire, and love in fresh terms.

English literature --- Masculinity in literature. --- History and criticism. --- Ovid, --- Influence.

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So vielfältig und zahlreich zeitliche Inkonsistenzen in Ovids "Metamorphosen" sind, so unscharf und divers ist auch das Bild, das sich in bisherigen Deutungen zu diesen oft Anachronismen genannten Textphänomenen zeigt. In dieser Arbeit wird anhand fiktions- und sprachtheoretischer Überlegungen eine systematische Neubewertung unternommen, die der ambitionierten Ästhetik des Gedichts sowohl theoretisch als auch textanalytisch Rechnung trägt. The temporal inconsistencies in Ovid's "Metamorphoses" are just as multifaceted and numerous as the image that has revealed itself in previous interpretations of these text phenomena - often referred to as "anachronisms" - is blurry and diverse. This volume looks at theories of fiction and language to carry out a systematic reevaluation of Ovid's poem that does justice to its ambitious aesthetics both in terms of theory and text analysis.

LITERARY CRITICISM / Ancient & Classical. --- Metamorphoses. --- Ovid. --- anachronism. --- fictionality. --- metaphor. --- Errors and blunders, Literary --- Metaphor --- Ovid, - 43 B.C.-17 A.D. or 18 A.D. - Metamorphoses

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This book offers a novel interpretation of politics and identity in Ovid's epic poem of transformations, the Metamorphoses. Reexamining the emphatically fictional character of the poem, Playing Gods argues that Ovid uses the problem of fiction in the text to redefine the power of poetry in Augustan Rome. The book also provides the fullest account yet of how the poem relates to the range of cultural phenomena that defined and projected Augustan authority, including spectacle, theater, and the visual arts. Andrew Feldherr argues that a key to the political as well as literary power of the Metamorphoses is the way it manipulates its readers' awareness that its stories cannot possibly be true. By continually juxtaposing the imaginary and the real, Ovid shows how a poem made up of fictions can and cannot acquire the authority and presence of other discursive forms. One important way that the poem does this is through narratives that create a "double vision" by casting characters as both mythical figures and enduring presences in the physical landscapes of its readers. This narrative device creates the kind of tensions between identification and distance that Augustan Romans would have felt when experiencing imperial spectacle and other contemporary cultural forms. Full of original interpretations, Playing Gods constructs a model for political readings of fiction that will be useful not only to classicists but to literary theorists and cultural historians in other fields.

Politics and literature --- Fables, Latin --- History and criticism. --- Ovid, --- Ovidius Naso, Publius.