Ovid Schollarship Flashcards
What does John thibault say about the intrigue on ovids exile
As long as the secret exists the fascination exists exerts will continue to encourage scholars to combine the available facts of history with the amorphous and cryptic allusions of Ovid to form a coherent answer to the enigma
What does Roy Gibson say about humour in the ars amatoria
Not all of the text makes fun of its addressees and even some of those passages which do, use humour as an effective tool for reinforcing the message
What does Peter too hey say about didactic literature and epics
A didactic epic speaks with a single authorial voice and this is directed explicitly to the addressee who may or may not be named. It’s subject matter is instructional
AWhat does Peter green say about the sailing metaphors being sexual (boat=penjs , harbour=vagina)
an obvious double entendre. The bare facts of the case are in any sense naked matters: if we see the entire recurrent metaphor of sailing in sexual terms
What does bishop say about the sincerity of voids poetry
Critics have repeatedly felt that the poems lack sincerity
What does bishop say about the over all message of the poems
About lust not love
What does d’elia say about voids opinion on homosexuality
Detested homosexual activity in which one partner is no more than a victim to the others desires
What does Gibson say about voids use of epic
Deflates epics by presenting mythical heroines as mere cause of erotic disappointment
What does hall say about ovids mocking humour
Ovid isn’t writing to women he’s mocking them
What does brunelle say about ovids use of didactic poetry
The only didactic work of antiquity explicitly designed to bring more benefit to its author than to its intended audience
