Redesigning Achilles: 'Recycling' the Epic Cycle in the 'Little Iliad' (Ovid, Metamorphoses 12.1-13.622) (Untersuchungen zur antiken Literatur und Geschichte, 89)

The book is a detailed study on the structure and the topics of Ovida (TM)s compedium of the Trojan Saga in Metamorphoses 12.1-13.622, the section also referred to as the a oeLittle Iliada . It explores the motives and the objectives behind the selected narrative moments from the Epic Cycle that found their way into the Ovidian version of the Trojan War. By thoroughly mastering and inspiringly refashioning a vast amount of literary material, Ovid generates a systematic reconstruction of the archetypal hero, Achilles. Thus, he projects himself as a worthy successor of Homer in the epic tradition, a master epicist, and a par to his great Latin predecessor, Vergil Redesigning Achilles (2007) ......Page 1 Untersuchungen zur antiken Literatur und Geschichte - Band 89......Page 3 ISBN: 9783110200485......Page 5 Preface......Page 6 --> Table of Contents......Page 8 Abbreviations......Page 12 Introduction......Page 14 1.1 Funeral Beginnings: Aesacus’ Cenotaph......Page 38 1.2 Marvelous Beginnings: The Snake Prodigy......Page 44 1.3 Maiden Beginnings: The Sacrifice of Iphigeneia......Page 50 2. The Fama of Epic Tradition......Page 58 1. Protesilaus, the Proto-Achilles......Page 62 2.1 Cycnum aut Hectora......Page 63 2.2 Do You Know Thy (Epic) Self?......Page 72 2.3 The Anger of Achilles......Page 80 2.4 The Hero’s Gender......Page 85 3. Achilles’ ‘Victory’......Page 92 4. The Swan Poetics......Page 96 1. Introduction......Page 100 2. Epic Singing and Epic Tales......Page 101 3. Epic Poetics: The Master of Epic Memory......Page 106 4.1. The Homeric Subtext......Page 111 4.2 Epic Gender and Epic Performance......Page 115 4.3. The Architecture of the Epic Spectacle......Page 121 5. The Spectacular Politics of Immortality......Page 129 1. Introduction......Page 138 2. Challenging Nestor: Tlepolemus Protesting......Page 139 3. The Fate of Periclymenus......Page 148 4. The Death of Achilles......Page 151 1. Introduction......Page 166 2. The Poetics of Argument......Page 167 3. The Price of the Prize......Page 168 4. ‘Writing Up’ the Contest......Page 172 5. Staging the Mênis, the Arms and the Men......Page 177 6. Scripting the Mêtis and the Arms as the Man......Page 182 7. The Iliad vs. the ‘little Iliad’......Page 184 8. Polemic En-listing......Page 200 9. Daedalean Poetics......Page 210 10. The Logic(al) Fashioning of the Epic Hero......Page 213 11. Epigrams, Epitaphs, and Epigraphs: Sealing the Closure......Page 215 1. Introduction......Page 220 2.1. The Fall of Troy and the Iliad......Page 222 2.2. The ‘Fall’ of Polydorus......Page 227 3. The ‘Fall of Troy’ and Hecuba......Page 235 4. The Anger of Hecuba......Page 238 5. Staging Polyxena......Page 241 6. Fe/Male Virtus and Sacrifice......Page 249 7. The Poetics of Lamentation......Page 257 1. Introduction......Page 266 2. Memnon and/as Achilles......Page 267 3. The Power of Aurora......Page 270 4. Memnon’s ‘Hectorean’ Side......Page 272 5.1. Allusion: The Birds of Meleager......Page 275 5.2. Illusory Sêmata......Page 286 5.3. Sema-ntic Nomina......Page 292 Bibliography......Page 298 I. Index of Cited Passages......Page 306 II. General Index......Page 312 Biographical note: Sophia Papaioannou, The National and Capodistrian University of Athens, Greece By Sophia Papaioannou. Includes Bibliographical References (p. [285]-291) And Index.