Epic Succession And Dissension: Ovid, Metamorphoses 13.623-14.582, And The Reinvention Book

	Summary of the 'little Aeneid' (Ovid, met. 13.623-14.582)	16
Ch. 1	Aeneads and Aniads : offering politics and the politics of offerings, or narrative discourse on Anius' crater (met. 13.681-701)
1	Introduction	19
2	The Ekphrasis, its text and context	20
3	The Theban connection	26
4	The Aesculapius parallel	32
Ch. 2	Immortality and mutability : the Sibyl and the power of poetic memory
1	Introduction	43
2	The Sibyl and Aeneas	46
3	The Sibyl and Rome	52
4	The Sibyl and poetic memory	60
5	The Sibyl's echo	70
Ch. 3	Centralizing the marginal : the anamorphosis of Achaemenides
1	Introduction	75
2	Achaemenides' literary identity	79
3	The dynamics of hypertextuality	83
4	Performance and metadiegesis	92
5	Metapoetics and cultural poetics	96
6	Spectator and observer	98
7	Auctor and actor	107
Ch. 4	Marginalizing the central : macareus anamnesis
1	Introduction	113
2	The plight of Picus and the quest for Dido	114
3	Looking for Dido	117
4	Picus' plight : torn between heaven and hell	127
5	An addendum	139
Ch. 5	Experimentation on a narrative chain I : poetology, epic definition, and the near-swans of Diomedes
1	Introduction	143
2	Vergil's Diomedes and ethics	145
3	Ovid's Diomedes and metapoetics	146
4	The avian metamorphosis context	149
5	The near-swans of Diomedes and the swan-chain	152
6	Swan poetics and epic succession	157
Ch. 6	Experimentation on a narrative chain II : Vergilian ships and Ovidian nymphs, and a play of literary identities
1	Introduction	167
2	The transformed nymphs and Diomedes	169
3	The attachment to Ardea	180
Ch. 7	Epic conclusion and epic closure : the fall of Ardea
	Epic conclusion and epic closure : the fall of Ardea	187