{"product_id":"ovid-death-and-transfiguration-9789004528819","title":"Ovid, Death and Transfiguration","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe open access publication of this book has been published with the support of the Swiss National Science Foundation.    Death, the ultimate change, is an unexpected Leitmotiv of Ovid’s career and reception. The eighteen contributions collected in this volume explore the theme of death and transfiguration in Ovid’s own career and his posthumous reception, revealing a unity in diversity that has not been appreciated in these terms before now.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAcknowledgements  List of Figures    Introduction: Ovid, Death and Transfiguration    Part 1 Death and the Lover    1 Death, Lament, and “Elegiac Aetiology” in Ovid’s Metamorphoses   Anke Walter    2 Duo moriemur: Death and Doubling in Ovid’s Metamorphoses   Florence Klein    3 Ovid’s Artistic Transfiguration, Procris and Cephalus   Thea Thorsen    4 Suicides for Love, Phyllis, Dido, Pyramus and Thisbe: Critical Variations on a Famous Motif of Erotic Poetry?   Jacqueline Fabre-Serris    5 Ovidian Pathology, in Love and in Exile   Laurel Fulkerson    Part 2 Death and the Artist    6 Frigid Landscapes and Literary Frigidity in Ovid’s Exile Poetry   A.M. Keith    7 Fantasies of Death in Ovid’s Poetry of Exile   Luigi Galasso    8 Seeing and Knowing in Roman Painting   Bettina Bergmann    9 The Niobids and the Augustan Age: On Some Recent Discoveries at Ciampino (Rome)   Alessandro Betori and Elena Calandra    Part 3 Revenants and Undead    10 Ambobus pellite regnis: Between Life and Death in Ovid’s Metamorphoses   Alison Sharrock    11 Ovid’s Exile Poetry and Zombies   Stephen Hinds    12 C.H. Sisson’s Metamorphoses and the “New Age of Ovid”   Francesco Ursini    13 Reviving the Dead: Ovid in Early Modern England   Emma Buckley    Part 4 Immortals and Others    14 From Chaos to Chaos: Janus in Fasti 1 and the Gates of War   Francesca Romana Berno    15 Intertextuality, Parody, and Immortality of Poetry: Petronius and Ovid   Giuseppe La Bua    16 Tod und Erklärung: Ovid on the Death of Julius Caesar (Met. 15.745–851)   Katharina Volk    17 The Books of Fate: The Venus-Jupiter Scene in Ovid’s Metamorphoses 15 and Its Epic Models   Sergio Casali    18 Apotheoses of the Poet   Philip Hardie    Index","brand":"Brill","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53210857603415,"sku":"9789004528819","price":131.2,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/ovid-death-and-transfiguration-9789004528819","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}