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Professor Charles Segal 出版社: The Johns Hopkins University Press 副标题: The Myth of the Poet 出版年: 1993-8-1 页数: 256 定价: USD 20.95 装帧: Paperback ISBN: 9780801847202
Preface xiii
Acknowledgments xvii
1. The Magic of Orpheus and the Ambiguities of Language i
2. Orpheus and the Fourth Georgic:
Virgil on Nature and Civilization 36
3. Ovid's Orpheus and Augustan Ideology 54
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Preface xiii
Acknowledgments xvii
1. The Magic of Orpheus and the Ambiguities of Language i
2. Orpheus and the Fourth Georgic:
Virgil on Nature and Civilization 36
3. Ovid's Orpheus and Augustan Ideology 54
4. Virgil and Ovid on Orpheus: A Second Look 73
5. Dissonant Sympathy: Song, Orpheus, and
the Golden Age in Seneca's Tragedies 95
6. Orpheus in Rilke: The Hidden Roots of Being 1x8
7. Orpheus from Antiquity to Today: Retrospect and Prospect 155
Notes ' 199
Select Bibliography 221
Index
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Ovid borrows one of Virgil's phrases but reduces the entire description to a single line. Here mothers, heroes, boys, girls, youths are generalized to far more neutral "peoples" and "shades": perque leves populos Simula- craquefuncta sepulcro (Met. 10.14). Ovid does, in fact, dwell on mortality, but his description of death appears not as a part of the narrative frame, but in the rhetoric of Orpheus' speech. By this displacement, Ovid changes the heroic tone and the impersonality (relatively speaking) of Virgil's treatment of death to a mood of personal response and rhetorical emotionality. He treats death not with a grim factuality, but as part of an attempt to persuade. By presenting the universality of death through the suffering participant's eyes, Ovid makes us perceive it less as the... (查看原文)
Amid the elaborate and artificial description of the underworld that follows Orpheus' speech (Met. 10.40-48), Ovid once more introduces a surprisingly poignant and unexpected detail. He actually permits us a glimpse of Eurydice in Hades: umbras erat ilia recentes / inter et in- cessit passu de vulnere tardo, "she was among the newly come shades, and she walked with a step made slow from her wound" (Met. 10.48-49).30 The concrete picture of Eurydice's underworld existence helps prepare for the ultimate union of the pair in book 11. Ovid, however, has borrowed a detail from another Virgilian source, the appearance of Dido before Aeneas: inter quas Phoenissa recens a vulnere Dido, "among whom was Phoenician Dido, fresh from her wound" (Aen. 6.450). The echo of this famous, highly charged scen... (查看原文)
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梳理，古典部分主要是從維吉爾和奧維德入手，這可能和Segal本身的古典語文學教授的關注點有關吧。有時候會覺得Charles Segal有點不厭其煩，老重複之前的論點，但是從細處分析再緊扣相關詩人整體的理念，還是有功力的。