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Showing 1 to 20 of 86 for “"Ovid"”.
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Battle narrative in Virgil and Ovid
… the Aeneid of Virgil and the Metamorphoses of Ovid are examined and analysed with regard to their use of word order, simile, catalogue, and other such stylistic features. The overall aim is to consider Ovid’s literary debt to his immediate epic predecessor Virgil, together with the debt of both …
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Fama proditrix: Rumor in Ovid, Statius, and Prudentius
… the personification of Fama in the authors Ovid, Statius, and Prudentius.These Latin authors were deeply influenced by Virgil’s famous personification of Fama in Aeneid 4, and their indebtedness to Virgil is expressed variously through their references to Fama in their own works. Chapter one …
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Pregnancy and Childbirth in the Poetry of Ovid
… these vital questions within the poetry of Ovid, a central figure in contemporary conversations around gender and the Classics. Although discussion of women in Ovid has long concentrated primarily on rape, his focus on childbirth is unique within Latin poetry, offering us some of our …
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Italian Readers of Ovid: From the Origins to Dante
"Italian Readers of Ovid: From the Origins to Dante" studies the reception of Ovid's writings in medieval Italian prose and poetry, from the first vernacular poems composed in Sicily to Dante's "Divina Commedia." Starting from the very beginnings of a new literary culture, I show how the increasing …
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Women Without Faces: Exemplary Control in Ovid's Amores 2
… analysis of the second book of Roman poet Ovid’s work of erotic elegies, Amores. Through a close reading of several crucial poems in book 2 of this work (2.17, 2.4-5, 2.2-3, and 2.7-8) and the application of modern literary and gender theories, such as the idea of gender performativity as …
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<i>Vim Parat</i>: Patterns of Sexualized Violence, Victim-Blaming, and Sororophobia in Ovid
… sexualized violence and rape in the Roman poet Ovid’s extensive corpus through the modern feminist concepts of victim-blaming (blaming victims of sexual abuse for their own abuse) and sororophobia (female figures participating in misogyny). It explores sexualized violence and rape in Ovid …
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Lucretian stillness and motion as political metaphors in Ovid’s Metamorphoses
… the contrast between stillness and motion in Ovid’s Metamorphoses as well as its connection to two other polarities in the poem: silence–sound and stagnation–fluidity. I argue that Ovid treats these three polarities as analogous and gives them political meaning, with stillness representing …
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Divine Poetics: Representation of Genre in Ovid's Metamorphoses 6.70-128
… have approached the story of Arachne based on Ovids critique of the Augustan regime, I focus more on the poetic representation of the two ekphrases in the context of their intertextual relationship with other Greek and Roman literary traditions. Minerva's tapestry is the embodiment of the …
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Environmental Change in Ovid's Poetry
What does Ovid tell us about how humans have changed the world? This thesis argues that a narrative of culture’s impact on nature—habitually invoked by scholars to describe this process—does not do justice to the subtlety and complexity of Ovid’s poetry. Reading Ovid requires thinking of …
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Empedoclean Elegy: Love, Strife and the Four Elements in Ovid's Amores, Ars Amatoria and Fasti
In this dissertation, I examine Ovid's use in the Amores, Ars Amatoria and Fasti of the concepts of love, strife and the four elements, which were closely identified with the philosopher-poet Empedocles in antiquity. My dissertation has two parts: in the first I demonstrate that in the Amores and …
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Reconstructing Home in Exile: Ovid's Tristia
… landscapes and social interactions that form Ovid's home in Rome, as well as his vision of a transcendent home made possible through poetry. My case-studies will be poems from Ovid's Tristia in which he either directly reconstructs home or provides a photographic negative image of home by …
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The Ideal of Lucretia in Augustan Latin Poetry
… Augustan poets Vergil, Tibullus, Propertius and Ovid. Other extant versions of the Lucretia legend do not mention woolworking; Livy appears to have added Lucretia’s devotion to wool, a tradition in keeping with Augustan propaganda. Woolworking has come to be thought of as a praiseworthy concern …
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Programmatic Elements in Selected Post -1950 Works for Solo Oboe
Excerpted text from Ovid's Metamorphoses and the interpretations of Ovid scholars are used to analyze Benjamin Britten's Six Metamorphoses After Ovid, op. 49. Henri Tomasi's representation of four women from Peru, Nigeria, Cambodia, and Scotland in Evocations is examined in relation to musical …
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OMNIA VINCIT AMOR: parody and tone in Ovid's Amores 3.11a&b
Ovid's Amores 3.11a&b has been discussed by many in passing, and few in detail. The poem contains the Ovidian lover's second attempt at a renuntiatio amoris, and (arguably) comprises two parts of a whole: in 3.11a, the lover boasts to have emancipated himself from love's shackles and proceeds to …
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Gender, Power, and Persona in the Poetry of Baudri of Bourgueil
… twelfth centuries saw a revival in the study of Ovid in the literary circles of the Loire Valley region of France. The poetry of Baudri, abbot of Bourgueil from approximately 1078-1107 and archbishop of Dol from 1107 until his death in 1130, exemplifies this trend. Baudri’s determinedly Ovidian …
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"In writing it may be spoke": The Politics of Women's Letter-Writing, 1377-1603
… and historical letters. The introduction provides a brief survey of literary depictions of letters, noting that works by Ovid, Chaucer, and Gower suggest that letters are the often the best means for women to communicate. In the first chapter I assert that Christine de Pizan specifically …
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Hair as a literary feature in Petronius' Satyrica
… that was written about by prominent poets like Ovid and even emperors like Domitian, and in the Satyrica we see the importance of hair and appearance for art and social standing reflected. The thesis begins with a survey of important literary figures that Petronius drew upon, including Homer, …
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The overall survival and local control benefit of external beam radiation therapy for selected cancers
… defining each indication benefit. Multiple Ovid electronic citation databases were queried (Medline, EMBase, Ovid EBM sources). Where there were multiple sources of the same evidence level, a meta-analysis was performed. Model robustness was tested through deterministic and probabilistic …
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Efficacy and Safety of Pharmacological Treatments of Chagas Disease
… treatment. The objective of this review was to provide an update on the efficacy and safety of trypanocidals used in the treatment of Chagas disease. Methods: Eligible studies were retrieved from electronic databases, Cochrane Central Register of Controlled Trials (CENTRAL), MEDLINE (Ovid), EMBASE …
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