The third chapter has a detailed interpretation of the story of Coronis and Mestra in the Metamorph

Theme by Ziogas' monograph is the intertextual dialogue between Ovid and Hesiod and the transformation of Hesiod from archaic Greece to the Roman period Rome (19): "Ovid's direct engagement with the Hesiodic corpus and indirect response to a multifaceted tradition of Hesiodic reception are keys to understanding his unique poetic universe. " Reception studies are a two way process, from which one can learn a lot about the author himself for reception are Ziogas. Hesiod's influence manfrotto 3130 on Latin poetry had not yet deserved attention in the research experience (1-3). Ziogas exemplified this with the example of Heroides 16: Verses 35-38 suggest the ovidianische Paris have read Hesiod woman catalog, verses 173-176 can be understood as a request to its addressee Helena, but to consult this genealogical epic itself; Helena's response letter manfrotto 3130 ( Heroides 17) implies that it has now done so precisely (3-5, 35-43).
In his introductory chapter emphasizes the female subject Ziogas hesiodeischer manfrotto 3130 poetry to the male character of Homeric epic, a characteristic that has already played in the ancient reception of the two corpora archaic epic play an important role (6-14). In the individual interpretations of the later chapters Ziogas will continue to follow manfrotto 3130 this approach. Hesiodic epic Ziogas referred to as the "host-genre" of Ovid's Metamorphoses, referring Hauptgattungsaffiliation in the intertextual relationships (14-15). As Hesiod which carries the victory over Homer in Certamen, Ovid hopes to surpass the 'Homeric' Aeneid by Virgil's Metamorphoses. Exist alongside thematic and stylistic affinities between Ovid's Metamorphoses and the woman hesiodeischen catalog (16-18): Ziogas emphasizes the importance of "sylleptic puns", the game with the transmitted and the literal meaning of an epic formula out. In the fast pacing and the use of framework acts Ziogas manfrotto 3130 sees another characteristic that is common to both epics. Below, in the context of his interpretation of "Golden Aphrodite" he writes (33): "The interdependence between physical reality and linguistic description is a crucial aspect of Hesiodic and Ovidian poetics."
His detailed interpretations begins Ziogas forth from the end: The first chapter has the wooing to Helena about which forms the conclusion of the woman hesiodeischen manfrotto 3130 catalog. Ziogas manfrotto 3130 sees a conscious intertextual play with the Iliad, are from the military leaders of the ship in the catalog Free, whose wealth manfrotto 3130 is what counts and acquire the κλέος not by warlike exploits, but by marrying Helena hope (20-27). In the second part of the chapter Ziogas returns to Ovid treated already in the introductory chapter elegiac letter Heroides 16 and provides a detailed interpretation of its intertextual references (28-53).
In the second chapter, "Cosmos and Eros" is Ziogas first turns to the cosmogonic themes that are at the beginning of Ovid's Metamorphoses. Again, manfrotto 3130 he works the intertextual references to both Virgil 6 Eclogue and to Hesiod's Theogony and Erga out (54-62). After a section of Deucalion and Pyrrha (62-66) are used to Ziogas the Metamorphoses (68), love stories between gods and men, implying a transformation. Ziogas interpreted especially the stories Ios (69-71), Callisto (73-75), manfrotto 3130 Europe (75-76) and Actaeon (77-81), where the comparison between metamorphosis and Mrs. catalog offers almost. In Perseus' story (Met 4, 793-801) provides a Ziogas Medusa Ehoie (82-86). The end of the second chapter take metapoetischer figures with a meaning: the Muses (86-94), Arachne (94-109) and Clymene (109-110) in Virgil's Georgics 4, 347, the verse (within the game 345-349) which forms the theme of the chapter.
The third chapter has a detailed interpretation of the story of Coronis and Mestra in the Metamorphoses and the woman to the catalog content. In the version of the Metamorphoses Ziogas provides a typical example of Ovid (112) "peculiar blending of the poetry of the Ehoiai with the Callimachean Epyllion". The fourth chapter deals similarly with Atalante. Ziogas found in both treatments of the Atalante-story metapoetische connotations. The Hesiodic manfrotto 3130 Atalante appears as a literary rival of the Homeric Achilles, the ovidianische as a literary rival of Virgil's Camilla (164). "While the Hesiodic manfrotto 3130 Ehoiai rivals manfrotto 3130 Homer's Iliad, manfrotto 3130 Ovid's Metamorphoses emulates Virgil's Aeneid ' In Chapter 5, Ziogas interprets the stories of Caenis Periclymenus and in the wider context of Ovid's version of the Trojan War