Ovid's Metamorphoses and the Environmental Imagination

Giulia Sissa, Francesca Martelli (Herausgeber)

Buch | Hardcover

264 Seiten

2023
Bloomsbury Academic (Verlag)
978-1-350-26894-4 (ISBN)

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This book positions Ovid’s Metamorphoses as a foundational text in the western history of environmental thought. The poem is about new bodies. Stones, springs, plants and animals materialize out of human origins to create a world of hybrid objects, which retain varying degrees of human subjectivity while taking on new physical form. In bending the boundaries of known categories of being, these hybrid entities reveal both the porousness of human and other agencies as well as the dangers released by their fusion. Metamorphosis unsettles the category of the human within the complex ecologies that make up the world as we know it.

Drawing on a range of modern environmental theorists and approaches, the contributors to this volume trace how the Metamorphoses models the relationship between humans and other life forms in ways that resonate with the preoccupations of contemporary eco-criticism. They make the case for seeing the worldview depicted in Ovid’s poem as an exemplar of the ‘premodern’ ecological mindset that contemporary environmental thought seeks to approximate. They also highlight critical moments in the history of the poem’s ecological reception, including reflections by a contemporary poet, as well as studies of Medieval and Renaissance responses to Ovid.

Giulia Sissa is Distinguished Professor of Political Science, Comparative Literature and Classics at UCLA, USA. She is the author of The Daily Life of the Greek Gods (with M. Detienne, 2000), Greek Virginity (1990), Sex and Sensuality in the Ancient World (2008), Jealousy: A Forbidden Passion (2017) and Le Pouvoir des femmes. Un défi pour la démocratie (2021). Francesca Martelli is Associate Professor of Classics at UCLA, USA. She is the author of Ovid (2020) and Ovid’s Revisions (2013).

List of Contributors
Series preface
Introduction by Giulia Sissa and Francesca Martelli
Whoa! (a poem by John Shoptaw)

Anthropology / Tragedy / Dark Ecology
1. Cuncta Fluunt: The Fluidity of Life in Ovid's Metamorphic World, by Giulia Sissa
2. Medea, the Middle, and the Muddle in the Metamorphoses, by Marco Formisano

Cross-Species Encounters
3. Animal Listening, by Shane Butler
4. Multispecies ethnographies, multispecies temporalities, by Francesca Martelli
5. Are trees really like people? by Emily Gowers

Science / Wisdom Traditions
6. The World in an Egg: Reading Medieval Ecologies, by Miranda Griffin
7. The Titania Translation: A Midsummer Night's Dream and the two Metamorphoses, by Julia Lupton
8. Metamorphosis in a Deeper World, by Claudia Zatta

Agriculture
9. Language, Life and Metamorphosis in Ovid's Roman backstory, by Diana Spencer
10. 'Who can impress the forest?' Agriculture, warfare, and theatrical experience in Ovid and Shakespeare, by Sandra Fluhrer

Epilogue
John Shoptaw (essay on the writing of Whoa!) Bibliography

Erscheinungsdatum	20.04.2022
Reihe/Serie	Ancient Environments
Zusatzinfo	5 bw illus
Verlagsort	London
Sprache	englisch
Maße	156 x 234 mm
Themenwelt	Literatur ► Klassiker / Moderne Klassiker
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft
	Naturwissenschaften ► Geowissenschaften
ISBN-10	1-350-26894-1 / 1350268941
ISBN-13	978-1-350-26894-4 / 9781350268944
Zustand	Neuware