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Off the Beaten Path : Ovidian Journeys in Valerius Flaccus’ ›Argonautica‹ / Raymond Marks.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Trends in Classics - Supplementary Volumes ; 161Publisher: Berlin ; Boston : De Gruyter, [2024]Copyright date: 2024Description: 1 online resource (XV, 233 p.)Content type:
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  • 9783111403045
  • 9783111403892
  • 9783111403649
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 873/.01 23/eng/20240703
LOC classification:
  • PA6791.V5 M37 2024
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  • online - DeGruyter
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  • Issued also in print.
Contents:
Frontmatter -- Acknowledgments -- Contents -- Introduction -- 1 The Proem -- 2 The Vehicle -- 3 The Path -- 4 Io -- 5 The Temple of the Sun -- 6 The Final Cut -- 7 Epilogue: The Metamorphoses and the End -- Bibliography -- Index Locorum -- Index Nominum
Summary: In the Argonautica, Valerius Flaccus not only recounts a voyage, that of the Argonauts in their quest for the golden fleece, but takes a journey himself, a poetic one, during which he explores new, unconventional paths in the epic genre. The present volume examines this aspect of Valerius’ poetic program, locating its primary source of inspiration in the works of Ovid, especially his epic, the Metamorphoses, and his exile poetry. It argues that the Metamorphoses influences not only discrete – often digressive – episodes in the Argonautica, but Valerius’ view of his poem as a “secondary” form of epic, which broadly deviates from the generic norms of his day. Echoes of the Tristia and Epistulae ex Ponto complement this approach by identifying many of Valerius’ characters, who are similarly displaced to the edges of the civilized world, with the exiled Ovid and even Valerius himself, who, at the end of the epic, finds his own “ship”, the epic itself, stranded roughly where Ovid lived out his days in exile. From this study, readers will gain a greater appreciation for the importance of Ovid to Valerius’ conception and execution of his epic program and one of its central themes, the journey.
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Frontmatter -- Acknowledgments -- Contents -- Introduction -- 1 The Proem -- 2 The Vehicle -- 3 The Path -- 4 Io -- 5 The Temple of the Sun -- 6 The Final Cut -- 7 Epilogue: The Metamorphoses and the End -- Bibliography -- Index Locorum -- Index Nominum

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In the Argonautica, Valerius Flaccus not only recounts a voyage, that of the Argonauts in their quest for the golden fleece, but takes a journey himself, a poetic one, during which he explores new, unconventional paths in the epic genre. The present volume examines this aspect of Valerius’ poetic program, locating its primary source of inspiration in the works of Ovid, especially his epic, the Metamorphoses, and his exile poetry. It argues that the Metamorphoses influences not only discrete – often digressive – episodes in the Argonautica, but Valerius’ view of his poem as a “secondary” form of epic, which broadly deviates from the generic norms of his day. Echoes of the Tristia and Epistulae ex Ponto complement this approach by identifying many of Valerius’ characters, who are similarly displaced to the edges of the civilized world, with the exiled Ovid and even Valerius himself, who, at the end of the epic, finds his own “ship”, the epic itself, stranded roughly where Ovid lived out his days in exile. From this study, readers will gain a greater appreciation for the importance of Ovid to Valerius’ conception and execution of his epic program and one of its central themes, the journey.

Issued also in print.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

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