OPVS IMPERFECTVM? COMPLETING THE UNFINISHED ACROSTIC AT OVID, METAMORPHOSES 15.871–5
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Published:2023-05
Issue:1
Volume:73
Page:243-249
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ISSN:0009-8388
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Container-title:The Classical Quarterly
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language:en
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Short-container-title:The Class. Q.
Abstract
AbstractThis article argues that the incomplete acrostic INCIP- at Ov. Met. 15.871–5 can be completed. If viewed as a ‘gamma-acrostic’, we can supply -iam from line 871, so that it receives its termination in retrospect. Ovid's manipulation of gamma-acrostic conventions caps his persistent confusion of beginnings and endings, and emphasizes the role of the reader as co-creator of his metamorphic œuvre.
Publisher
Cambridge University Press (CUP)
Subject
Literature and Literary Theory,Philosophy,History,Classics
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