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In: Simon Grund, Robert Kirstein, and Julian Wagner (eds.), Ambiguity and Narratology. Interdisciplinary Perspectives and Diachronic Case Studies, 239-272 (Narratologia, Vol. 92), 2024
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In: Simon Grund, Robert Kirstein, and Julian Wagner (eds.), Ambiguity and Narratology. Interdisciplinary Perspectives and Diachronic Case Studies, 3-6 (Narratologia, Vol. 92), 2024
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In: Edoardo Galfré, Christoph Schubert (eds.), Suétone narrateur. Biographie und Erzählung in De vita Caesarum, Berlin: de Gruyter, 163-181 (Millenium Studiues Vol. 106), 2024
In: Peter Hühn, John Pier, and Wolf Schmid (eds.), Handbook of Diachronic Narratology, Berlin: de Gruyter, 84-104 (Narratologia Vol. 86), 2023
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In: Spyridon Tzounakas, Stella Alekou, Stephen Harrison (eds.), The Reception of Ancient Cyprus in Western Culture, Berlin: de Gruyter, 87-102 (Trends in Classics Suppl. Vol. 139), 2023
The chapter takes its starting point from the aspect of beauty in the Pygmalion story. It argues ... more The chapter takes its starting point from the aspect of beauty in the Pygmalion story. It argues that symmetry and balance play a key role, for example in the structure of the episode or in the change of focalization between Orpheus and Pygmalion. Since balance is also, at least in part, a fundamentally physical and bodily experience, it seems to be of particular importance in the creation of a living statue. In a manner typical of Ovid, the destabilizing and the suspending of balance, including the potential even to turn into forms of excess, are also evoked at the same time.
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In: Esme Winter-Froemel and Álvaro S. Octavio de Toledo y Huerta (eds.), Manual of Discourse Traditions in Romance (Manuals of Romance Linguistics), 739-750, 2023
This contribution explores possible applications of discourse traditions (DTs) within literary st... more This contribution explores possible applications of discourse traditions (DTs) within literary studies, using ancient Greek and Latin authors as examples. Topics in- clude the analysis of literary genres across linguistic boundaries and epochs (the ex- ample of medieval and ancient Latin love poetry) and the development of new genres out of already existing conventions and traditions (Ovid’s exile poetry). The phenom- enon of the Berliner Schnauze ‘Berlin snout’, discussed by Koch (1997) as an introduc- tory example, proves fruitful for literary processes observed in Greek Hellenistic and Roman literature by expanding aspects of intertextuality (the “Callimachean voice”). The DT model is further used to investigate how conventional epoch attributions can be used also time-independently (Ovid as “postmodern” author) and how traditions that have actually outlived themselves find reactivation (“republicanism” in Tacitus’ early imperial writings).
In: Doris Meyer and Céline Urlacher-Becht (eds.), Dictionnaire de l’épigramme littéraire dans l’a... more In: Doris Meyer and Céline Urlacher-Becht (eds.), Dictionnaire de l’épigramme littéraire dans l’antiquité grecque et romaine, Turnhout: Brepols, 1105-1108, 2023.
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In: Jan Gerstner, Jakob C. Heller, and Christian Schmitt (eds.), Handbuch Idylle. Traditionen – V... more In: Jan Gerstner, Jakob C. Heller, and Christian Schmitt (eds.), Handbuch Idylle. Traditionen – Verfahren – Theorien, Stuttgart: J.B. Metzler, 71-78, 2022
In: Mathieu de Bakker, Baukje van den Berg, and Jacqueline Klooster (eds.), Emotions and Narrative in Ancient Literature and Beyond. Studies in Honour of Irene de Jong, Leiden: Brill, 119-134, 2022
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In: M. Vöhler, T. Fuhrer, S. Frangoulidis (eds.), Strategies of Ambiguity in Ancient Literature, Berlin: de Gruyter, 157-173 (Trends in Classics Suppl. Vol. 114), 2021
Ovid's Metamorphoses have a heroic image that is different from epics such as Homer's Odyssey or ... more Ovid's Metamorphoses have a heroic image that is different from epics such as Homer's Odyssey or Virgil's Aeneid. The main character is replaced by a polyphony of heroes in about 250 individual narratives, which are linked to form a highly complex narrative structure. This paper attempts to analyze this aspect by integrating approaches from the Tübingen Research Training Group 1808 Ambiguity: Production and Perception and the Freiburg Collaborative Research Center 948 Heroes, Heroizations, Heroisms. In particular, at the intersection of literary studies and linguistics, it will be asked how ambiguity is generated linguistically in the Metamorphoses. It is therefore less about the evaluation of individual characters from the point of view of heroism, but rather about how, one level deeper, a language of ambiguity is generated. A tale from Ovid's Metamorphoses, the story of Hermaphroditus and Salmacis, serves as an example text.
[an earlier version in German language has been published in 2019, see below]
In: Jinyu Liu (ed.), New Frontiers of Research on Ovid in a Global Context (Quan qiu shi ye xia de gu luo ma shi ren ao wei de yan jiu qian yan). Studies in Western Classics Series (xi fang gu dian xue yan jiu xi lie cong shu). Peking University Press (Bei jing da xue chu ban she), 281-295 , 2021
In: Scienze dell’Antichitá 26/2: La narratologia come approccio alla letteratura e all’arte antiche. A cura di Andrea Cucchiarelli, 115-126, 2020
This paper argues that in Sueton’s Augustusvita a strategic ‘narrativization’ of the emperor’s li... more This paper argues that in Sueton’s Augustusvita a strategic ‘narrativization’ of the emperor’s life can be observed. Following de Jong's formulation of a "narrativization of description" one could speak here of a ‘narrativization of life’. In particular, the two episodes about the birthplace (§ 6) and about a victorious ancestor of Augustus (§ 1) in the first part of the Vita allow an indication that Sueton was more interested in the exceptional nature of Augustus than merely in justifying it from entertaining reports about victorious ancestors or the numinous rule of an invisible power at the sites of his childhood. The use of the two striking, self-contained but conspicuously related short narratives, each with a high degree of sujet-like eventfulness, can then be read as a strategic narrativization of the depicted imperial life. The narrative element would then not only be a means of representation, but also a statement about the narrative worthiness or tellability of an exceptional ruler.
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In: helden. heroes. héros. E-Journal on the Cultures of the Heroic, Special Issue Vol. 6: Ambige Helden (ed. by Nicolas Potysch, Angelika Zirker), 27-35, 2019
Ovids Metamorphosen weisen ein ‚Heldenbild‘ auf, das sich radikal von ‚klassischen‘ antiken Epen ... more Ovids Metamorphosen weisen ein ‚Heldenbild‘ auf, das sich radikal von ‚klassischen‘ antiken Epen wie Homers Odyssee oder Vergils Aeneis unterscheidet. An die Stelle des einen Helden tritt nun eine Polyphonie von Helden in ca. 250 Einzelerzählungen, die unter dem Aspekt aitiologisch motivierter Verwandlungen zu einem narrativ hochkomplexen Gesamtgebilde verbunden sind. Der Beitrag versucht, diesen in der Forschung immer wieder betonten Aspekt näher zu analysieren, indem er Ansätze der Tübinger Ambiguitätsforschung (GRK 1808) und des Freiburger Heldenprojektes (SFB 948) integriert. Im Einzelnen wird auf der Schnittfläche von Literaturwissenschat und Linguistik gefragt, wie Ambiguität in den Metamorphosen sprachlich erzeugt wird. Es geht also weniger um die Bewertung einzelner Figuren unter dem Gesichtspunkt der Heldenhaftigkeit (z.B. ‚Ist Actaeon ein Held oder Anti-Held‘), sondern darum, wie – eine Ebene tiefer – eine Sprache der Ambiguität erzeugt wird. Ausgangspunkt bilden sprachliche Einheiten, die Aspekte des Halben bezeichnen, wie die bei Ovid auffällig häufigen Komposita auf semi- / ‚halb‘ (z.B. semi-vir / ‚Halb-mann‘).
In: Eva von Contze, Stefan Tilg (eds.), Handbuch Historische Narratologie, Stuttgart: J.B. Metzler, 206-217, 2019
In: Oliver Schelske, Christian Wendt (eds.), Mare nostrum – mare meum. Wasserräume und Herrschaftsrepräsentation, Hildesheim: Olms, 31- 54, 2019
In: J. J. Klooster, M. A. Harder, R. F. Regtuit, G. C. Wakker (eds.), Callimachus Revisited. New Perspectives in Callimachean Scholarship, Leuven: Peeters (Hellenistica Groningana, Vol. 24), 193-220, 2019
If you are interested in the full paper, please feel to contact me.
In: Ruth Conrad, Volker H. Drecol, Sigrid Hirbodian (eds.), Säkulare Prozessionen. Zur religiösen Grundierung von Umzügen, Einzügen und Aufmärschen, Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck (Colloquia historica et theologica 6), 111-145, 2019
In: Strukturen epischen Erzählens – Epische Bauformen, Vol. 1, Berlin: De Gruyter, 2019
Narrative theory or narratology, to use the term coined by Tzvetan Todorov in the late 1960s, has... more Narrative theory or narratology, to use the term coined by Tzvetan Todorov in the late 1960s, has in recent decades evolved into a key concept of literary theory. Its subject, the oral and written, literary and non-literary narrative has become almost a principal paradigm of Cultural Studies. In this view, narrative appears as an anthropologically given (culturally and socially variable) fact, as a ubiquitous means both of individual and collective interpretation of the world and of the making of cultural meaning. No other literary genre of modern literature is so closely linked to the aspect of the search for meaning in an increasingly fragmented and uncertain world as the novel.
In: Strukturen epischen Erzählens – Epische Bauformen, Vol. 2, Berlin: De Gruyter, 2019
In: Esme Winter-Froemel (ed.), Sprach-Spiel-Kunst. Ein Dialog zwischen Wissenschaft und Praxis, Berlin: de Gruyter (The Dynamics of Wordplay, Vol. 8), 247-262, 2018
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In: Simon Grund, Robert Kirstein, and Julian Wagner (eds.), Ambiguity and Narratology. Interdisciplinary Perspectives and Diachronic Case Studies, 239-272 (Narratologia, Vol. 92), 2024
If you are interested in the full article, please contact me.
In: Simon Grund, Robert Kirstein, and Julian Wagner (eds.), Ambiguity and Narratology. Interdisciplinary Perspectives and Diachronic Case Studies, 3-6 (Narratologia, Vol. 92), 2024
If you are interested in the full article, please contact me.
In: Edoardo Galfré, Christoph Schubert (eds.), Suétone narrateur. Biographie und Erzählung in De vita Caesarum, Berlin: de Gruyter, 163-181 (Millenium Studiues Vol. 106), 2024
In: Peter Hühn, John Pier, and Wolf Schmid (eds.), Handbook of Diachronic Narratology, Berlin: de Gruyter, 84-104 (Narratologia Vol. 86), 2023
If you are interested in the full article, please contact me.
In: Spyridon Tzounakas, Stella Alekou, Stephen Harrison (eds.), The Reception of Ancient Cyprus in Western Culture, Berlin: de Gruyter, 87-102 (Trends in Classics Suppl. Vol. 139), 2023
The chapter takes its starting point from the aspect of beauty in the Pygmalion story. It argues ... more The chapter takes its starting point from the aspect of beauty in the Pygmalion story. It argues that symmetry and balance play a key role, for example in the structure of the episode or in the change of focalization between Orpheus and Pygmalion. Since balance is also, at least in part, a fundamentally physical and bodily experience, it seems to be of particular importance in the creation of a living statue. In a manner typical of Ovid, the destabilizing and the suspending of balance, including the potential even to turn into forms of excess, are also evoked at the same time.
If you are interested in the full article, please contact me.
In: Esme Winter-Froemel and Álvaro S. Octavio de Toledo y Huerta (eds.), Manual of Discourse Traditions in Romance (Manuals of Romance Linguistics), 739-750, 2023
This contribution explores possible applications of discourse traditions (DTs) within literary st... more This contribution explores possible applications of discourse traditions (DTs) within literary studies, using ancient Greek and Latin authors as examples. Topics in- clude the analysis of literary genres across linguistic boundaries and epochs (the ex- ample of medieval and ancient Latin love poetry) and the development of new genres out of already existing conventions and traditions (Ovid’s exile poetry). The phenom- enon of the Berliner Schnauze ‘Berlin snout’, discussed by Koch (1997) as an introduc- tory example, proves fruitful for literary processes observed in Greek Hellenistic and Roman literature by expanding aspects of intertextuality (the “Callimachean voice”). The DT model is further used to investigate how conventional epoch attributions can be used also time-independently (Ovid as “postmodern” author) and how traditions that have actually outlived themselves find reactivation (“republicanism” in Tacitus’ early imperial writings).
In: Doris Meyer and Céline Urlacher-Becht (eds.), Dictionnaire de l’épigramme littéraire dans l’a... more In: Doris Meyer and Céline Urlacher-Becht (eds.), Dictionnaire de l’épigramme littéraire dans l’antiquité grecque et romaine, Turnhout: Brepols, 1105-1108, 2023.
If you are interested in the full article, please contact me.
In: Jan Gerstner, Jakob C. Heller, and Christian Schmitt (eds.), Handbuch Idylle. Traditionen – V... more In: Jan Gerstner, Jakob C. Heller, and Christian Schmitt (eds.), Handbuch Idylle. Traditionen – Verfahren – Theorien, Stuttgart: J.B. Metzler, 71-78, 2022
In: Mathieu de Bakker, Baukje van den Berg, and Jacqueline Klooster (eds.), Emotions and Narrative in Ancient Literature and Beyond. Studies in Honour of Irene de Jong, Leiden: Brill, 119-134, 2022
If you are interested in the full article, please contact me.
In: M. Vöhler, T. Fuhrer, S. Frangoulidis (eds.), Strategies of Ambiguity in Ancient Literature, Berlin: de Gruyter, 157-173 (Trends in Classics Suppl. Vol. 114), 2021
Ovid's Metamorphoses have a heroic image that is different from epics such as Homer's Odyssey or ... more Ovid's Metamorphoses have a heroic image that is different from epics such as Homer's Odyssey or Virgil's Aeneid. The main character is replaced by a polyphony of heroes in about 250 individual narratives, which are linked to form a highly complex narrative structure. This paper attempts to analyze this aspect by integrating approaches from the Tübingen Research Training Group 1808 Ambiguity: Production and Perception and the Freiburg Collaborative Research Center 948 Heroes, Heroizations, Heroisms. In particular, at the intersection of literary studies and linguistics, it will be asked how ambiguity is generated linguistically in the Metamorphoses. It is therefore less about the evaluation of individual characters from the point of view of heroism, but rather about how, one level deeper, a language of ambiguity is generated. A tale from Ovid's Metamorphoses, the story of Hermaphroditus and Salmacis, serves as an example text.
[an earlier version in German language has been published in 2019, see below]
In: Jinyu Liu (ed.), New Frontiers of Research on Ovid in a Global Context (Quan qiu shi ye xia de gu luo ma shi ren ao wei de yan jiu qian yan). Studies in Western Classics Series (xi fang gu dian xue yan jiu xi lie cong shu). Peking University Press (Bei jing da xue chu ban she), 281-295 , 2021
In: Scienze dell’Antichitá 26/2: La narratologia come approccio alla letteratura e all’arte antiche. A cura di Andrea Cucchiarelli, 115-126, 2020
This paper argues that in Sueton’s Augustusvita a strategic ‘narrativization’ of the emperor’s li... more This paper argues that in Sueton’s Augustusvita a strategic ‘narrativization’ of the emperor’s life can be observed. Following de Jong's formulation of a "narrativization of description" one could speak here of a ‘narrativization of life’. In particular, the two episodes about the birthplace (§ 6) and about a victorious ancestor of Augustus (§ 1) in the first part of the Vita allow an indication that Sueton was more interested in the exceptional nature of Augustus than merely in justifying it from entertaining reports about victorious ancestors or the numinous rule of an invisible power at the sites of his childhood. The use of the two striking, self-contained but conspicuously related short narratives, each with a high degree of sujet-like eventfulness, can then be read as a strategic narrativization of the depicted imperial life. The narrative element would then not only be a means of representation, but also a statement about the narrative worthiness or tellability of an exceptional ruler.
If you are interested in the full paper, please feel to contact me.
In: helden. heroes. héros. E-Journal on the Cultures of the Heroic, Special Issue Vol. 6: Ambige Helden (ed. by Nicolas Potysch, Angelika Zirker), 27-35, 2019
Ovids Metamorphosen weisen ein ‚Heldenbild‘ auf, das sich radikal von ‚klassischen‘ antiken Epen ... more Ovids Metamorphosen weisen ein ‚Heldenbild‘ auf, das sich radikal von ‚klassischen‘ antiken Epen wie Homers Odyssee oder Vergils Aeneis unterscheidet. An die Stelle des einen Helden tritt nun eine Polyphonie von Helden in ca. 250 Einzelerzählungen, die unter dem Aspekt aitiologisch motivierter Verwandlungen zu einem narrativ hochkomplexen Gesamtgebilde verbunden sind. Der Beitrag versucht, diesen in der Forschung immer wieder betonten Aspekt näher zu analysieren, indem er Ansätze der Tübinger Ambiguitätsforschung (GRK 1808) und des Freiburger Heldenprojektes (SFB 948) integriert. Im Einzelnen wird auf der Schnittfläche von Literaturwissenschat und Linguistik gefragt, wie Ambiguität in den Metamorphosen sprachlich erzeugt wird. Es geht also weniger um die Bewertung einzelner Figuren unter dem Gesichtspunkt der Heldenhaftigkeit (z.B. ‚Ist Actaeon ein Held oder Anti-Held‘), sondern darum, wie – eine Ebene tiefer – eine Sprache der Ambiguität erzeugt wird. Ausgangspunkt bilden sprachliche Einheiten, die Aspekte des Halben bezeichnen, wie die bei Ovid auffällig häufigen Komposita auf semi- / ‚halb‘ (z.B. semi-vir / ‚Halb-mann‘).
In: Eva von Contze, Stefan Tilg (eds.), Handbuch Historische Narratologie, Stuttgart: J.B. Metzler, 206-217, 2019
In: Oliver Schelske, Christian Wendt (eds.), Mare nostrum – mare meum. Wasserräume und Herrschaftsrepräsentation, Hildesheim: Olms, 31- 54, 2019
In: J. J. Klooster, M. A. Harder, R. F. Regtuit, G. C. Wakker (eds.), Callimachus Revisited. New Perspectives in Callimachean Scholarship, Leuven: Peeters (Hellenistica Groningana, Vol. 24), 193-220, 2019
If you are interested in the full paper, please feel to contact me.
In: Ruth Conrad, Volker H. Drecol, Sigrid Hirbodian (eds.), Säkulare Prozessionen. Zur religiösen Grundierung von Umzügen, Einzügen und Aufmärschen, Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck (Colloquia historica et theologica 6), 111-145, 2019
In: Strukturen epischen Erzählens – Epische Bauformen, Vol. 1, Berlin: De Gruyter, 2019
Narrative theory or narratology, to use the term coined by Tzvetan Todorov in the late 1960s, has... more Narrative theory or narratology, to use the term coined by Tzvetan Todorov in the late 1960s, has in recent decades evolved into a key concept of literary theory. Its subject, the oral and written, literary and non-literary narrative has become almost a principal paradigm of Cultural Studies. In this view, narrative appears as an anthropologically given (culturally and socially variable) fact, as a ubiquitous means both of individual and collective interpretation of the world and of the making of cultural meaning. No other literary genre of modern literature is so closely linked to the aspect of the search for meaning in an increasingly fragmented and uncertain world as the novel.
In: Strukturen epischen Erzählens – Epische Bauformen, Vol. 2, Berlin: De Gruyter, 2019
In: Esme Winter-Froemel (ed.), Sprach-Spiel-Kunst. Ein Dialog zwischen Wissenschaft und Praxis, Berlin: de Gruyter (The Dynamics of Wordplay, Vol. 8), 247-262, 2018
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Series: Colloquia Raurica, Vol. 18, (Dec), 2024
Recht als Erzählung Zwei aktuelle Forschungstrends stehen in diesem Band miteinander im Dialog: e... more Recht als Erzählung Zwei aktuelle Forschungstrends stehen in diesem Band miteinander im Dialog: erstens das wachsende Interesse am Recht in den historisch orientierten Literatur-und Kulturwissenschaften, die dieses zunehmend auch als Medium kultureller Wissensbestände und sozialer Praxis begreifen. Zweitens der Megatrend der Narratologie, der längst zu einem Analyseinstrument für ganz verschiedene Arten fiktionaler und neuerdings auch faktualer Textsorten und Medien avanciert ist. Welche Erkenntnisse ergeben sich, wenn man Rechtstexte als Erzählungen betrachtet und sie auf ihre jeweiligen narrativen Strukturen und Funktionen hin befragt? Der Band verfolgt ein doppeltes Ziel: Die Beschäftigung mit Recht soll der literaturwissenschaftlichen Erzählforschung helfen, einen neuen Gegenstand zu erschließen, und so einen Beitrag zur Narratologie nicht-fiktionaler Texte leisten. Zum anderen will er eine neue Perspektive auf das Recht als kulturelles Medium eröffnen.
Series: Narratologia, Vol. 92, 2024
Series: Hermeneutik und Kreativität, Vol. 3, 2015
Series: Texte und Kommentare, Vol. 29, 2007
Edited with commentary by W. M. Calder III and R. Kirstein, 2 Vol., Hildesheim: Weidmann, 2003
Der über Jahrzehnte sich erstreckende Briefwechsel zwischen Mommsen und Wilamowitz-Moellendorff i... more Der über Jahrzehnte sich erstreckende Briefwechsel zwischen Mommsen und Wilamowitz-Moellendorff ist eine der bedeutendsten Gelehrtenkorrespondenzen. Der ungemein intensive Gedankenaustausch eröffnet den Einblick in das Werden klassischer Meisterwerke wie Mommsens Staatsrecht und Römische Geschichte und ergänzt sie durch eine Fülle nicht in die publizierten Schriften der beiden Gelehrten eingegangener Materialien und Ideen. Urteile über Personen, Ereignisse und Zustände des akademischen und außerakademischen Lebens und oft scharf formulierte zeitkritische Betrachtungen erhöhen die Bedeutung des Bandes.
Nachdem die lange Zeit verschollen geglaubten Originalbeiträge vor kurzem wiedergefunden worden sind, erfolgt nun eine vollständige und authentische Neuausgabe der Korrespondenz, in der alle Retuschen und Kürzungen, die man bei der Erstausgabe 1935 für notwendig erachtet hatte, rückgängig gemacht wurden.
Series: Chrêsis, Vol. 8, 2000
Edited with commentary by W. M. Calder III and R. Kirstein, Nachrichten der Göttinger Akademie der Wissenschaften. Philologisch-historische Klasse, Nr. 5, Göttingen, 1999
Edited by S. Heilen, R. Kirstein, R. S. Smith, S. Trzaskoma, M. Vorwerk, R. van der Wal, Hildesheim: Olms, 2008
Edited by Irene J.F. de Jong, University of Amsterdam, and Robert Kirstein, Eberhard Karls Univer... more Edited by Irene J.F. de Jong, University of Amsterdam, and Robert Kirstein, Eberhard Karls University of Tübingen. – Associate Editors: Eva von Contzen, Freiburg, and Ingela Nilsson, University of Uppsala.
This Narratological Commentary on Silius’ Battle of Ticinus lays bare the narrative form of the t... more This Narratological Commentary on Silius’ Battle of Ticinus lays bare the narrative form of the text by addressing numerous narratological aspects, including plot-development, focalization, space, and intertextuality. The book also focuses on the phenomenon of ambiguity with its dynamic processes of (un-)strategic production, perception, and resolution. Ambiguity is a central feature of the Punica because of the epic’s constant oscillation between fact and fiction: it treats the changing fortunes of war and the tension between Rome and Carthage, which Silius translates into a moment of poetical equilibrium by his paradoxical problematization of triumph in defeat and defeat through triumph.
The book o fers an in-depth narratological analysis of the 'Book of Orpheus' (10.1-11.84) of Ovid... more The book o fers an in-depth narratological analysis of the 'Book of Orpheus' (10.1-11.84) of Ovid’s Metamorphoses. Starting from fundamental aspects of narrative like time, space, and focalisation, the commentary highlights the polyphony of the various narrative levels. The complex and challenging design results from a constant oscillation between the narrator-persona of Ovid and the programmatic Orpheus-figure which has found a wealth of interpretations. In addition, the study places the 10th book in the overall narrative framework of Ovid’s Metamorphoses with its density of intertextuality and metanarrativity.