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MnU |
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9781783740840 |
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MnU |
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eng |
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MnU |
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PE1408 |
| 100 1# - MAIN ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME |
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Gildenhard, Ingo |
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author |
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| Title |
Ovid, Metamorphoses, 3.511-733. Latin Text with Commentary |
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Ingo Gildenhard |
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Open Textbook Library |
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Open Book Publishers |
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1 online resource |
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Open textbook library. |
| 505 0# - FORMATTED CONTENTS NOTE |
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| Formatted contents note |
Introduction -- 1. Ovid and His Times -- 2. Ovid's Literary Progression: Elegy to Epic -- 3. The Metamorphoses: A Literary Monstrum -- 3a. Genre Matters -- 3b. A Collection of Metamorphic Tales -- 3c. A Universal History -- 3d. Anthropological Epic -- 3e. A Reader's Digest of Greek and Latin Literature -- 4. Ovid's Theban Narrative -- 5. The Set Text: Pentheus and Bacchus -- 5a. Sources and Intertexts -- 5b. The Personnel of the Set Text -- 6. The Bacchanalia and Roman Culture -- Text -- Commentary -- 511-26: Tiresias' Warning to Pentheus -- 527-71: Pentheus' Rejection of Bacchus -- 531-63: Pentheus' Speech -- 572-691: The Captive Acoetes and his Tale -- 692-733: Pentheus' Gruesome Demise -- Appendices -- 1. Versification -- 2. Glossary of Rhetorical and Syntactic Figures |
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This extract from Ovid's 'Theban History' recounts the confrontation of Pentheus, king of Thebes, with his divine cousin, Bacchus, the god of wine. Notwithstanding the warnings of the seer Tiresias and the cautionary tale of a character Acoetes (perhaps Bacchus in disguise), who tells of how the god once transformed a group of blasphemous sailors into dolphins, Pentheus refuses to acknowledge the divinity of Bacchus or allow his worship at Thebes. Enraged, yet curious to witness the orgiastic rites of the nascent cult, Pentheus conceals himself in a grove on Mt. Cithaeron near the locus of the ceremonies. But in the course of the rites he is spotted by the female participants who rush upon him in a delusional frenzy, his mother and sisters in the vanguard, and tear him limb from limb. The episode abounds in themes of abiding interest, not least the clash between the authoritarian personality of Pentheus, who embodies 'law and order', masculine prowess, and the martial ethos of his city, and Bacchus, a somewhat effeminate god of orgiastic excess, who revels in the delusional and the deceptive, the transgression of boundaries, and the blurring of gender distinctions. This course book offers a wide-ranging introduction, the original Latin text, study aids with vocabulary, and an extensive commentary. Designed to stretch and stimulate readers, Gildenhard and Zissos's incisive commentary will be of particular interest to students of Latin at AS and undergraduate level. It extends beyond detailed linguistic analysis to encourage critical engagement with Ovid's poetry and discussion of the most recent scholarly thought. |
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Attribution |
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In English. |
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Description based on online resource |
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Humanities |
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Textbooks |
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Rhetoric |
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Textbooks |
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Zissos, Andrew |
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author |
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Open Textbook Library |
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distributor |
| 856 40 - ELECTRONIC LOCATION AND ACCESS |
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<a href="https://open.umn.edu/opentextbooks/textbooks/477">https://open.umn.edu/opentextbooks/textbooks/477</a> |
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Access online version |
