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Ovid's Heroidos / Howard Jacobson.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Princeton Legacy Library ; 1301Publisher: Princeton, NJ : Princeton University Press, [2015]Copyright date: ©1974Description: 1 online resource (454 p.)Content type:
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  • 9780691618333
  • 9781400872398
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 873.01 23
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  • online - DeGruyter
Online resources: Available additional physical forms:
  • Issued also in print.
Contents:
Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgements -- Abbreviations and Short Titles -- Introduction -- I. Heroides 3: Briseis -- II. Heroides 8: Hermione -- III. Heroides 2: Phyllis -- IV. Heroides 7: Dido -- V. Heroides 6: Hypsipyle -- VI. Heroides 12: Medea -- VII. Heroides 14: Hypermestra -- VIII. Heroides 4: Phaedra -- IX. Heroides 11: Canace -- X. Heroides 5: Oenone -- XI. Heroides 13: Laodamia -- XII. Heroides 10: Ariadne -- XIII. Heroides 9: Deianira -- XIV. Heroides 1: Penelope -- XV. Heroides 15: Sappho -- XVI. The Date of the Heroides -- XVII. The Nature of the Genre: Ovid's Originality -- XVIII. The Role of Perspective -- XIX. Dramatic Structure -- XX. The Heroides: Myth and Psychology -- XXI. Variatio -- Appendix -- Select Bibliography -- Index Locorum -- Index Nominum et Rerum -- Backmatter
Summary: A series of letters purportedly written by Penelope, Dido, Medea, and other heroines to their lovers, the Heroides represents Ovid's initial attempt to revitalize myth as a subject for literature. In this book, Howard Jacobson examines the first fifteen elegaic letters of the Heroides.In his critical evaluation, Professor Jacobson takes into consideration the twofold nature of the work: its existence as a single entity with uniform poetic structure and coherent goals, and its existence as a collection of fifteen individual poems. Thus, fifteen chapters are devoted to a thorough analysis and interpretation of the particular poems, while six additional chapters are concerned with problems that pertain to the work as a whole, such as the nature of the genre, the role of rhetoric, theme, and variation, and the originality of Ovid.Special attention is given to the application of modern psychological criticism to the delineations of the pathological psyche in the letters. In an additional chapter on the chronology of Ovid's early amatory poetry, the author challenges and revises the traditional dating of the Heroides.Originally published in 1974.The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.
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Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgements -- Abbreviations and Short Titles -- Introduction -- I. Heroides 3: Briseis -- II. Heroides 8: Hermione -- III. Heroides 2: Phyllis -- IV. Heroides 7: Dido -- V. Heroides 6: Hypsipyle -- VI. Heroides 12: Medea -- VII. Heroides 14: Hypermestra -- VIII. Heroides 4: Phaedra -- IX. Heroides 11: Canace -- X. Heroides 5: Oenone -- XI. Heroides 13: Laodamia -- XII. Heroides 10: Ariadne -- XIII. Heroides 9: Deianira -- XIV. Heroides 1: Penelope -- XV. Heroides 15: Sappho -- XVI. The Date of the Heroides -- XVII. The Nature of the Genre: Ovid's Originality -- XVIII. The Role of Perspective -- XIX. Dramatic Structure -- XX. The Heroides: Myth and Psychology -- XXI. Variatio -- Appendix -- Select Bibliography -- Index Locorum -- Index Nominum et Rerum -- Backmatter

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A series of letters purportedly written by Penelope, Dido, Medea, and other heroines to their lovers, the Heroides represents Ovid's initial attempt to revitalize myth as a subject for literature. In this book, Howard Jacobson examines the first fifteen elegaic letters of the Heroides.In his critical evaluation, Professor Jacobson takes into consideration the twofold nature of the work: its existence as a single entity with uniform poetic structure and coherent goals, and its existence as a collection of fifteen individual poems. Thus, fifteen chapters are devoted to a thorough analysis and interpretation of the particular poems, while six additional chapters are concerned with problems that pertain to the work as a whole, such as the nature of the genre, the role of rhetoric, theme, and variation, and the originality of Ovid.Special attention is given to the application of modern psychological criticism to the delineations of the pathological psyche in the letters. In an additional chapter on the chronology of Ovid's early amatory poetry, the author challenges and revises the traditional dating of the Heroides.Originally published in 1974.The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.

Issued also in print.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

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