{"title":"The Haunting Voice of Rabidity and Captivity: Sources and Inventions in Ovid's Hecuba Narrative","authors":"Cynthia Liu","doi":"10.1353/clw.2021.0028","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT:This paper is interested in the animalistic, specifically canine, force of Hecuba in the Metamorphoses and the gendered and generic significance it takes on. Unpacking the nuances of Ovid's emphasis on the canine aspects of Hecuba's epic ira and his epicisation of her canine metamorphosis will elucidate the generic motivation behind Ovid's aesthetic and locational departures from literary tradition that shape his particular version of this well-known myth. This paper concludes that Ovid engages with epic features in his retelling so as to recuperate Hecuba as an epic figure rather than a tragic one.","PeriodicalId":46369,"journal":{"name":"CLASSICAL WORLD","volume":"115 1","pages":"24 - 5"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2000,"publicationDate":"2021-11-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"CLASSICAL WORLD","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.1353/clw.2021.0028","RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"0","JCRName":"CLASSICS","Score":null,"Total":0}
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ABSTRACT:This paper is interested in the animalistic, specifically canine, force of Hecuba in the Metamorphoses and the gendered and generic significance it takes on. Unpacking the nuances of Ovid's emphasis on the canine aspects of Hecuba's epic ira and his epicisation of her canine metamorphosis will elucidate the generic motivation behind Ovid's aesthetic and locational departures from literary tradition that shape his particular version of this well-known myth. This paper concludes that Ovid engages with epic features in his retelling so as to recuperate Hecuba as an epic figure rather than a tragic one.
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Classical World (ISSN 0009-8418) is the quarterly journal of The Classical Association of the Atlantic States, published on a seasonal schedule with Fall (September-November), Winter (December-February), Spring (March-May), and Summer (June-August) issues. Begun in 1907 as The Classical Weekly, this peer-reviewed journal publishes contributions on all aspects of Greek and Roman literature, history, and society.
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