JUNO-VENGEANCE MOTIF Actaeon-Diana (suggesting) ... Jun

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Brooks Otis, Ovid as an Epic Poet
(1966,1970)Structural Approach

• Divine Comedy
• Books I-II
• Avenging Gods
• Books III-VI.400
• Pathos of Love
• Books VI.401-XI
• Troy to Rome
• Books XII-XV

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Brooks Otis, Ovid as an Epic Poet
(1966,1970)Divine Comedy Books I-II
(1)

• Epic Introductory Panel
• The Creation Fall of Man (Flood, Re-creation)
  415 lines
• Divine Amor Apollo, Daphne
• Divine Amor Jupiter, Io
• Epic Central Panel (Phaethon, Conflagration of
  the Universe) 432 lines
• Divine Amor Jupiter, Callisto
• Divine Amor Apollo, Coronis
• Divine Amor Hermes, Herse Divine
  Amor Jupiter, Europa

(2)
Transitional and concluding Amores
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Brooks Otis, Ovid as an Epic Poet
(1966,1970)The Avenging Gods Books III-IV
(1)

• Vengeance Episodes (Actaeon, Semele,
  Narcissus-Echo, Pentheus)
• First Amatory Frame Love Tales of the Minyades
  Epic Central Panel (Perseus, Andromeda-Phineus)
  (449 lines) Second Amatory Frame Love Tales of
  the Muses (Proserpina)
• Vengeance Episodes (Arachne, Niobe, Lycian
  Peasants, Marsyas)

(2)
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Brooks Otis, Ovid as an Epic Poet
(1966,1970)The Avenging Gods Books III-IV
Vengeance Episodes
Amatory Contrast Episodes
Epic Central Panels
Introductory Cadmus, foundation of Thebes
Book III 1-137 138-252 253-315 316-338 339-510 511
-733
Actaeon Semele Tiresias Narcissus-Echo Pentheus
(Tyrrhene sailors)
Book IV 1-42 43-166 167-273 274-388 389-415 415-56
2 563-603 604-803
Minyades (introductory) First
sisters talePyramus Thisbe Leuconoes
taleLeucothoe - Clytie Alcithoes tale
Salmacis Minyades (metamorphosis) Ino
Cadmus, Harmonia, Snakes PERSEUS-ANDROMEDA
CENTER OF SECTION
PERSEUS-PHINEUS Muses-Pieriae
(Minerva) Ceres -Proserpina
subtales (Ascalabus,Aschalaphus,Arethusa,Tripto
lemus) Metamorphosis of Pieriae
First Frame
Book V 1-249 250-340 341-661 662-678
Second Frame
Book VI 1-145 146-312 313-381 382-400
Arachne Niobe Lycian Peasants Marsyas
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Brooks Otis, Ovid as an Epic Poet
(1966,1970)The Avenging Gods Books III-IV

• JUNO-VENGEANCE MOTIF Actaeon-Diana
• (suggesting)
• Juno-Semele, mother of Bacchus
  (Pentheus, Sailors,Minyades)
• (suggesting)
• Juno-Ino

VERGILIAN MOTIFS Juno (soliloquy III.256ff.) A
I.37ff. Juno (2nd soliloquy IV.416ff.) A
VII.293ff. Tisiphone (Allecto) A
IV.432ff. Perseus (Aeneas) Andromeda
(Lavinia) Cepheus (Latinus) Phineus (Turnus)
Series 1
Series 2
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Brooks Otis, Ovid as an Epic Poet (1966,1970)
SECTION I

• Actaeon, Semele, Pentheus, Ino
• Minyades
• PERSEUS
• Muses
• Arachne, Niobe, Lycian Peasants, Marsyas

SECTION II
SECTION III
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Brooks Otis, Ovid as an Epic Poet (1966,1970)
SECTION I

• Actaeon, Semele, Pentheus, Ino
• Minyades
• PERSEUS
• Muses
• Arachne, Niobe, Lycian Peasants, Marsyas

Here Ovids ingenuity is not so much amusing as
gauche and repellent. Perseus is after all no
god but a man, and the curious vengeance he takes
strikes a decidedly discordant note among the
amatory, comic or pathetically human tones of
this part of the poem. Ovid has no taste for
heroes and, certainly, no capacity for creating
them. His imitation of Virgil is for once
without the excuse for parody or of deliberately
designed incongruity. Unlike the Virgilian bits
of Books XII-XV (Galatea, Achaemenides, the
Sibyl, etc.), the Phineus is mitigated by neither
humour nor brevity it cannot be taken as
anything but a hollow pretence of epic that,
despite and indeed because of its ingenuities,
degenerates into mere bathos. Here Ovid is at
his worst and his worst is very bad
indeed. p.163-4
SECTION II
SECTION III
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Brooks Otis, Ovid as an Epic Poet
(1966,1970)Pathos of Love Books IV.401-XI
(1)

• First Amatory Pathos (Philomela, Procne, Tereus)
• A Miracles of Death and Resurrection (set in
  amatory frame)
• Second Amatory Pathos (Scylla)
• First Epic Panel (Meleager-Althea) (287
  lines)
• Interset contrasting Theodicies
  (Philemon-Baucis, Erysichthon)
• Second Epic Panel (Hercules-Deianira-Apotheosis)
  (272 lines)
• Third Amatory Pathos (Byblis)
• B Miracles of Punishment and Reward (set in
  amatory frame)
• Fourth Amatory Pathos (Myrrha)
• Fifth Amatory Pathos (Ceyx-Alcyone)

(2)
(3)
(4)
(5)
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Episodes of Amatory Pathos
Contrast Episodes Miracles in Amatory Frame
Central Panel
Philomela-Procne-Tereus Transition to Argonauts
Pandion, Cephalus, Procris, Orithyia-Boreas
Book VI 401-674 675-721
Medea (love, winning the fleece)
Human miracles Aeson Daughters
of Pelias Medea
(wanderings)
Theseus-Aegeus-Minos-Aeacus-Cephalus (Aegina)
Pestilentia (men destroyed by plague)
Divine Miracles Myrmidons (men created out
of ants) Cephalus Procris (amatory
pathos without metamorphosis) Scylla (Cretan
Interlude Minotaur, Ariadne)
Daedalus-Icarus (Paternal Grief)
(Perdix)
MELEAGER-ALTHAEA (Interlude Achelous,
etc.) Theodicy I (Philemon-Baucis) Th
eodicy II (Erysicthon) (Interlude Achelous,
etc.)
Book VII 1-158 159-296 297-349 350-403 404-504
505-613 614-660 661-868
Medea Frame
Cephalus Frame
Book VII I1-151 152-182 183-235 236-259 260-546 5
47-615 616-724 725-878 878-883
Central Panel
HERCULES-DEIANIRA-DEIFICAT
ION (Galanthis) Dryope (Maternal Grief)
(Iolaus, Callirhoes filii 394-446) Byblis Iphis
Book IX 1-272 273-323 324-446 447-665 666-797
Orpheus-Eurydice (separation from wife
rejection of women) Arbores etc. Cyparissus
GODS AND BOYS Ganymede Hyac
inthus (Cerastae-Propoetides,
220-242) Pygmalion Myrrha Adonis
GODDESS AND BOY Atalanta Death of Adonis
Book X 1-77 78-105 106-154 155-161 162-242
243-297 298-502 503-559 560-707 708-738
Miracles of Piety
Amatory insets (homosexual)
Miracles of Impiety
Amatory insets (heterosexual)
Death of Orpheus (reunion with wife)
Midas
Peleus-Thetis Ceyx-Alcyone End pieces for
Ceyx - Alcyone Aesacus
Book XI 1-84 85-193 194-409 410-748 749-795
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Introductory and Transitional, VII, 350-504
L O S S
Phocus Question (661-89)
Cephalus Question (505-17)
L O S S
First Loss of Procris (690-758)
Men Pestilence (518-613) Corpses
R E C O V ER Y
The Miraculous Gifts- Miracle of Dog,(759-93)
R E C O V ER Y
Response Prayer of Aeacus (614-21)
Ants Miracle of Ants-Men (622-60) Men
L O S S
Second Loss of Procris (794-862)
Miracle I
Love II
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Brooks Otis, Ovid as an Epic Poet
(1966,1970)Troy to Rome Books XII-XV
(1)

• Troy (Lapiths and Centaurs)
• Judgement of Arms (Rhetorical Panel)
• Troy (Hecuba)
• (1) Aeneas (Anaides)
• Amatory Story (Galatea, Scylla, Circe)
• (2) Aeneas (Sibyl, Achaemenides)
• Amatory Story (Circe, Picus, Canens)
• (3) Aeneas (Deification)
• Rome (The Native Gods, Pomona-Vertumnus,
  Romulus)
• Pythagorus Soliloquy (Philosophic Panel)
• Rome (Foreign Gods Hippolytus, Aesculapius)
• Conclusion (Apotheosis of Caesar)

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(3)
(4)
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Brooks Otis, Ovid as an Epic Poet
(1966,1970)Troy to Rome Books XII-XV
EPISODES
PANELS
THEME
Trojan Section liaison Introduction Trojan
War, Fama, Cygnus Caeneus, Lariths-Centaurs
(epic) Periclymenus Death of Achilles
Bk. XII, 1-62 1-145 146-535 536-611 612-Bk. XIII,
398 Bk. XIII, 399-575 576-622 623-718 719-897 898-
Bk. XIV, 74 Bk. XIV, 75-153 154-307 308-440 441-60
8 609-771 772-851 Bk. XV, 1-478 479-621 622-744 7
45-870
TROY
ARMORUM IUDICORUM
Hecuba (tragic) Memnon Aniades-Orionides
(Aeneas) Galatea-Cyclops-Acis Scylla-Glaucus-C
irce
Aeneas, Sibyl Ulysses-Cyclops-Circe Picus-Cane
ns-Circe Aeneas, Turnus, Apotheosis Aeneae
AENEAS
Pomona-Vertumnus (Iphis -
Anaxarete) Apotheosis Romuli Hippolytus Aescu
lapius Apotheosis Caesaris
Native Gods
ROME
PYTHAGORAS SOLILOQUY
Foreign Gods