Redesigning Achilles : : 'Recycling' the Epic Cycle in the 'Little Iliad' (Ovid, Metamorphoses 12.1-13.622) / / Sophia Papaioannou.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DGBA Backlist Classics and Near East Studies 2000-2014 (EN)
• VerfasserIn: Papaioannou, Sophia,
• Place / Publishing House: Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter, , [2008]; ©2007
• Year of Publication: 2008
• Language: English
• Series: Untersuchungen zur antiken Literatur und Geschichte , 89
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (304 p.)
• Other title: Frontmatter --; Table of Contents --; Introduction --; Chapter One Designing ‘Epic’ Beginnings --; Chapter Two Epic Self-affirmation and Epic --; Self-consciousness: Introducing Achilles (Met. 12.64-145) --; Chapter Three Poetic Memory and Epic --; (De)Composition: Deconstructing Achilles --; Chapter Four Facets of Elimination: Killing --; Achilles --; Chapter Five The ‘Judgment of the Arms’: --; Re-Constructing Achilles --; Chapter Six Fe/Male Sacrifice: Performing the --; Poetics of Genre- and Gender-Crossing in the ‘Fall of Troy’ (Met. --; 13.399-575) --; Chapter Seven Memnon’s Fate and Fame: Impersonating --; Backmatter
• Format: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9783110204308; 9783110621099; 9783110238570; 9783110636178; 9783110212129; 9783110212136; 9783110209075
• ISSN: 1862-1112
• DOI: 10.1515/9783110204308
• Access: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: Sophia Papaioannou.

The book is a detailed study on the structure and the topics of Ovid’s compedium of the Trojan Saga in Metamorphoses 12.1-13.622, the section also referred to as the “Little Iliad”. It explores the motives and the objectives behind the selected narrative moments from the Epic Cycle that found their way into the Ovidian version of the Trojan War. By thoroughly mastering and inspiringly refashioning a vast amount of literary material, Ovid generates a systematic reconstruction of the archetypal hero, Achilles. Thus, he projects himself as a worthy successor of Homer in the epic tradition, a master epicist, and a par to his great Latin predecessor, Vergil.