Philosophy in Ovid, Ovid as Philosopher 1st Gareth D. Williams (Editor)

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• ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0197610331
• ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0197610336
• Author(s): Gareth d. Williams, Katherina Volk

Ovid has long been celebrated for the versatility of his poetic imagination, the diversity of his generic experimentation throughout his long career, and his intimate engagement with the Greco-Roman literary tradition that precedes him; but what of his engagement with the philosophical tradition? Ovid’s close familiarity with philosophical ideas and with specific philosophical texts has long been recognized, perhaps most prominently in the Pythagorean, Platonic, Empedoclean, and Lucretian shades that have been seen to color his Metamorphoses. This philosophical component has often been perceived as a feature implicated in, and subordinate to, Ovid’s larger literary agenda, both pre- and post-exilic; and because of the controlling influence conceded to that literary impulse, readings of the philosophical dimension have often focused on the perceived distortion, ironizing, or parodying of the philosophical sources and ideas on which Ovid draws, as if his literary orientation inevitably compromises or qualifies a “serious” philosophical commitment.

Table contents:

Introduction
1. Ouidius sapiens: The Wise Man in Ovid’s Work
2. Elegy, Tragedy, and the Choice of Ovid (Amores 3.1)
3. Ovid’s Ars amatoria and the Epicurean Hedonic Calculus
4. Criticizing Love’s Critic: Epicurean parrhesia as an Instructional Mode in Ovidian Love Elegy
5. Ovid’s imago mundi muliebris and the Makeup of the World in Ars amatoria 3.101–290
6. Ovid’s Art of Life
7. Keep Up the Good Work: (Don’t) Do It like Ovid (Sen. QNat. 3.27–30)
8. Venus discors: The Empedocleo-Lucretian Background of Venus and Calliope’s Song in Metamorphoses 5
9. Labor and pestis in Ovid’s Metamorphoses
10. Cosmic Artistry in Ovid and Plato
11. Some Say the World Will End in Fire: Philosophizing the Memnonides in Ovid’s Metamorphoses
12. Ovid against the Elements: Natural Philosophy, Paradoxography, and Ethnography in the Exile Poetry
13. Akrasia and Agency in Ovid’s Tristia
14. Intimations of Mortality: Ovid and the End(s) of the World
15. The End(s) of Reason in Tomis: Philosophical Traces, Erasures, and Error in Ovid’s Exilic Poetry
16. Philosophizing and Theologizing Reincarnations of Ovid: Lucan to Alexander Pope
Works Cited
Index of Passages
General Index

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