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Zusatztext Ovid’s “environment” is a very obvious and at the same time an extremely complicated topic. “Ovid’s Metamorphoses and the Environmental Imagination” interrogates the Ovidian text with new questions, which encourage us to rethink the role of the non-human world in the Metamorphoses and beyond. Informationen zum Autor Giulia Sissa is Distinguished Professor of Political Theory, Classics, and Comparative Literature at the University of California, Los Angeles, USA. She writes about the political and erotic cultures of Greece and Rome in a long-term perspective and always from the standpoint of contemporary issues. Among her most recent books are 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). Klappentext 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. Vorwort A volume of essays on contemporary environmental approaches to Ovid's Metamorphoses and its reception. Zusammenfassung 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. Inhaltsverzeichnis List of ContributorsSeries prefaceIntroduction by Giulia Sissa and Francesca MartelliWhoa! (a poem by John Shoptaw) Anthropology / Tragedy / Dark Ecology1. Cuncta Fluunt: Th...
