Ovid's "Musomachia"

Johnson, Patricia; Malamud, Martha A.

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“…inBömer 1976 andRosati, Chiarini 2009; Johnson 2008. 8 SeeJohnson, Malamud 1988;Sharrock 2002; Johnson 2008, esp. 72-73 and n. 84.…”

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Ovid, ‘Metamorphoses’ 5,254–6,2, and the Terms for the Muses in Greek and Roman Culture

Mojsik

2023

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Epithets used to describe the Muses are an essential component of metapoetic language, starting as early as the time of Homer and Hesiod. However, it has never been a static phenomenon, as the cultural transformations entailed the changes in the language describing the Muses. Its scope included physical appearance, ancestry, voice/sound, relations with the poet/musician and – a rather important aspect – geographical associations. Revealing traces of this imagery is not an easy task: we lack cult hymns, and in most literary works, we encounter merely 2–3 epithets at the most. In this respect, Ovid is exceptional. In his Metamorphoses (5,254–6,2), in the story of the contest between the Muses of Helicon and the false Pierides, the poet deploys a uniquely rich descriptive terminology concerning the Muses (Mnemonides, Thespiades, Aonides, Emathides, [Pierides], doctae sorores, etc.). In this article, I look at the poet’s choices in this story and analyze the origins, functions and connotations of the epithets and terms he uses.

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“…inBömer 1976 andRosati, Chiarini 2009; Johnson 2008. 8 SeeJohnson, Malamud 1988;Sharrock 2002; Johnson 2008, esp. 72-73 and n. 84.…”

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Ovid, ‘Metamorphoses’ 5,254–6,2, and the Terms for the Muses in Greek and Roman Culture

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2023

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“…The Minyeides combine theomachy (refusal to honour Dionysus) with art (weaving and narrative) but the relationship between the two elements is less direct. On divine contests in general and specific instances: Leach (1974), Lateiner (1984), Johnson and Malamud (1988), Clauss (1989), Harries (1990), Hardy (1995), Rosati (1999), Johnson (2008), Oliensis (2004), James (2004), Feldherr (2010) 60–122, Strohschneider (2011), O'Bryhim (2014), Beer (2018).…”

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A Brutal Hack: Tyranny, Rape, and the Barbarism of Bad Poetry in Ovid's Pyreneus Episode

Cowan

2020

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Poet-figures in Ovid's Metamorphoses have been the object of much study, especially those silenced by the powerful, but little attention has been given to Pyreneus. Immediately before the famous contest of the Muses and Pierides, the former briefly narrate their attempted rape by the usurping Thracian tyrant Pyreneus and his precipitous death while trying to fly after them. The few critics who have touched on this episode have tended to focus exclusively on one aspect, be it the poetic, sexual, political, or religious. None has provided a holistic interpretation which does justice to the complex interplay of these four dimensions or to Ovid's witty and characteristic reification of figurative language.Pyreneus is simultaneously an invading usurper, an attempted rapist, an impious theomach, and, on the poetic plane, a talentless plagiarist or derivative imitator, who tries to appropriate others’ work but bathetically and disastrously fails. The interrelation of these four roles, each troping the others, throws light on all, and Pyreneus needs to be contextualized among the Met.'s other tyrants, rapists, and theomachs, as well as its poet-figures. The episode itself, derivative and overstuffed with Ovidian motifs, is mimetic of the sort of narrative bad (would-be) poets like Pyreneus produce.

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Der Künstler und sein Werk: Arachne, Pygmalion, Daedalus, Marsyas, Orpheus

Lämmle

2021

Ovid-Handbuch

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Ovid's "Musomachia"

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Ovid, ‘Metamorphoses’ 5,254–6,2, and the Terms for the Muses in Greek and Roman Culture

Ovid, ‘Metamorphoses’ 5,254–6,2, and the Terms for the Muses in Greek and Roman Culture

A Brutal Hack: Tyranny, Rape, and the Barbarism of Bad Poetry in Ovid's Pyreneus Episode

Der Künstler und sein Werk: Arachne, Pygmalion, Daedalus, Marsyas, Orpheus

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