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Showing 1 to 7 of 7 for “"Ovid's Metamorphoses"”.
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Grammatical Gender and Transformation in Ovid's "Metamorphoses"
Ovid’s Metamorphoses offers a meandering sequence of mythological transformations with no formal scheme – or so scholars have long thought. This thesis wagers that the poem does offer a scheme for understanding the world, which lies in the relationship between the biological sex and social gender …
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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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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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"As Mind to the Body": Prudence and Artificial Memory in the Illustrations and Commentary of George Sandys' Ovid's Metamorphosis Englished (1632)
… an analysis of an English verse translation of Ovid's Metamorphoses, published in 1632 by the Englishman George Sandys. This book included a full English commentary and was illustrated by several full-plate engravings. This study examines the edition's elaborate utilization of the rhetorical …
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Maintaining Untraditional Virginity
Ovid's Metamorphoses contains a world full of supernatural beings, violent confrontations, and scandalous relationships. Many myths contain stories of sexual pursuits, which often involve a god lusting after a young virgin. Those tales establish the fragility of virginity within the poem, …
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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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The Classical in the Contemporary: Contemporary Art in Britain and its Relationships with Greco-Roman Antiquity
My thesis is titled ‘The Classical in the Contemporary: Contemporary Art in Britain and its Relationships with Greco-Roman Antiquity.’ From the viewpoint of classical reception studies, I am asking what contemporary British art (by, for example, Sarah Lucas, Damien Hirst, and Mark Wallinger) has to …