Although repetition is found in all ancient literary genres, it is
especially pervasive in epic poetry. Ovid's Metamorphoses exploits
this dimension of the epic genre to such an extent that past
critics have faulted it as too filled with recycled themes and
language. This volume seeks a deeper understanding of Ovidian
repetitiveness in the context of new scholarship on intertextuality
and intratextuality, examining the urposeful reuse of previous
material and the effects produced by a text's repetitive gestures.
Uniting the essays is a shared vision of the possibilities of Latin
epic poetry and a series of attempts to realize those
possibilities. Some of the pieces fall into a traditional vein of
allusion and intertextuality; others are more innovative in their
approaches. Each, in a sense, stands as a placeholder for a
methodology of theorizing the repetitive practices of poetry, of
epic, and of Ovid in particular. All citations from Greek and Latin
are translated into English, rendering the book accessible to
scholars of literature beyond classical studies.
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